Ok, so on my way to work I listed to the Jeff and Jer showgram on 94.1 on weekday mornings. (sometimes using the iheart radio free app on my iphone too) Occasionally I find out stuff that is intriguing, especially their own stories of life and change. Tommy (like the producer or something) shared a testimony of life change once that was amazing. Jeff recently did the same when he got “re-married” and caught everyone off guard cuz no one knew he had gotten a divorce. His integration of faith and family and reality and pain and hurt and hopes and dreams caused me to sit in my car and listen for like 20 minutes in the parking lot at work one morning.

But, I think I listen mostly cuz I think they are funny!

Here’s three things they talked about on the air and then put on their website that we’re interesting and a few that I found hysterical.

NAVY SEAL AD: This ad from the navy seals is awesome. I had a whole Navy Seal read-a-thon period of my life where I read all kinds of stuff about them and their “hell week” training here in San Diego. I even got lucky and watched part of it in the bay one night while shannon and I had dinner in coronado when they were training shortly after moving here. So, I’m kind of a Navy Seal junkie. Sorta. Maybe one of my kids will be a Navy Seal. If so, do yourself a favor and don’t jack with them. They are legit. So is this ad. (Click on it to make it bigger)

DEMOTIVATOR POSTERS: Lastly, I’ve seen tons of demotivator posters and even bought one of the original despair company calendars that started the whole trend, but these two made me laugh out loud. Try not to hate me for the stuff that I find funny.

I entered a photo contest for non-pros. Cost was $5 a pic so I tried two. I dunno. People from all over the world can put in pics and the grand prize is $2000 or a brand new Canon 5d Mark II camera.

I have no idea if I’d score the grand prize, but here’s the two photos I threw in the bucket. They just extended the deadline for entries another 2 days. So all you photo peeps, throw something in the mix and win it. 🙂 The categories are people, children, animals, architecture, beauty, and landscape.

This one I creatively titled: “African Bugs”

This one “Becky on the Nile”

Wish me (and Becky) luck!

If you wanna read the New Testament in the next 12 weeks with me, then you can step up to the challenge with some students in Encounter and I.

I met with a student last week to talk about faith and calling and goals and stuff and he said that he wanted to read through the New Testament 3x this summer.

I asked, “Do you have a plan as to how you’re going to do that?”
He said, “No, not really.”

So I decided to help him out and create a way for him to read it through just once in twelve weeks and publish it for all our students last weekend in our weekend program. I figured 3x was a little ambitious for most, so I made a plan for just 1x and figured that if he wanted to go hog wild and triple it, he could.

So, wanna join in the fun?

If so, just say so in the comments and do this:

Goal: each of the next 12 weeks, read about 4 chapters a day for six days.
you get to skip 1 day a week just cuz life happens
or use it to catch up cuz you read slow 🙂

Result: you’ll have done it in just under 12 weeks.
if you start today with this reading plan, you’ll be done on Wed., august 26th.

you can also download a pdf of it here.

My family likes to go to the fair. Yes, it’s lame and yes it’s the same every year and yes we go see the pigs and the sheep and the rabbits and the plants and even the lame table settings people submit. And yes, I even have been known to buy some wonder product. The kitchen pots I’ve used for cooking for the last 10 years are a fair going purchase. So is my cool modee collapsible giant ladder thing. Maybe this year I’ll score some knives that cut glass and tomatoes but turn to butter on human skin. 🙂

So, needless to say we’re on the San Diego County Fair e-mail list and the latest e-mail is trying to tempt me to going to $2 Tuesdays on June 16 (you have to buy the tickets at Albertsons) so i can try the following food items:

• chocolate-covered bacon strips
• the giant Big T Texas Tenderloin sandwich
• deep-fried green beans
• grilled asparagus
• oatmeal-cookie chicken sandwiches
• bread pudding
• hot dog stuffed in a zucchini called a Zucchini Weeni.

Yep. don’t even act like the chocolate covered bacon didn’t make you gag and hold your arteries in fear. And you know you laughed outloud that somene has to scream….

“Step right up and get your Zucchini Weeni!”

Jake is a crazy kid. He has more energy and zeal for life than like 12 kids and he also has made a huge sacrifice in the last 6 months. When we adopted two younger siblings, Jake had to give up his proud status as the youngest brother. This has meant that Dad time and Jake’s needs are a little higher these days so, I made sure to swing by his 1st grade field trip to Sea World today.

I couldn’t be there all day, but I made it for about an hour…. long enough to catch some pics and see the bat rays, the moray eels, the sea stars, the turtles, and the aquarium with Jake before they headed to lunch.

So here’s some pictures of a crazy hour with a crazy kid….

Oh, and yes… I did take time to stop and smell the roses as we walked too. I half think just looking at the plants in theme parks and the zoo and stuff are worth the entry fee all by themselves.