Get it!
10/15/2004
I am feeling: like 4 days is ages away!
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Archive for October, 2004
Hey~ These guys just put up their new website, so go check it out! You can hear some of their awesome new songs online! You will be very happy with yourself if you do! B-leeve me!
Thief
10/14/2004
I am feeling: poor
I invested in things that I couldn’t have
I have spent my fortune in such little time
I’m left ashamed of what I’ve lost
And what I’ve taken was never mine
I am a thief of spiritual things
Plundered my future with a careless past
I’m feeling the burn that all of it brings
And I try not to make the memories last
I wish I could forget
I’m sorry
And take it all back
I’d take the fall
10 out of 10 terrorists support "Anybody but Bush!"
10/13/2004
I am feeling: Patriotic
Only a couple weeks left! Man this election season has flown by! But I will be glad to see November 3rd. This last debate should have made it so clear to any Christian who they’re voting for. I see NO WAY that a Christian could justify voting for Kerry when he is pro-abortion. And not only that, he is for late-term abortion which is a brutal practice. We need to make sure to make it out to the polls! Many elections have been won or lost by a few thousand or even hundreds of votes! So be responsible and vote! And encourage all your friends to vote too…unless of course they are for Kerry :P
Keep it real!
What a blessed life it is…
10/12/2004
I am feeling: Spared of a lot
There is so much to be thankful for! Although at times I cry out of my perceived “pit of distress”, I am really living the good life! I don’t know what it means to suffer. The Lord has really dealt me a nice hand.
I think that I take a lot for granted. But lately I have really been meditating on how blessed of a life I have. I can’t imagine any better! Sure I could have more money, or a nicer car, or a bigger apartment – but the truth is, that is not what makes my life so blessed. I have a God that loves me and is interested in me. I have freedom. I have breath! And that is what makes this life so good!
I don’t think I could say it any better than David himself put it:
“I have trusted in Your lovingkindness;My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation.I will sing to the Lord,For He has dealt bountifully with me.” – Psalm 13:5-6
What a blessed life!
It’s not a tumor…
10/09/2004
I am feeling: Sore!
O man! I bought a pass to a gym in town yesterday. It is open 24 hours a day, so at around midnight, I decided to go for a quick work out. I have been reading up on H.I.T. (High Intensity Training) , and so I thought I would give it a go. The basic philosophy behind it is “HARDER BUT BRIEFER“. Well, I always thought that I knew how to work out hard, but boy-o-boy was I wrong! According to this book and others I read on H.I.T. “if you enjoy working out, you’re doing something wrong”. Here is another funny quote from another writer on H.I.T. “If you’ve never vomited from doing a set of barbell curls, then you’ve never experienced outright hard work“. So yesterday I thought I would give it a shot…and I left the gym with my muscles twitching! About half way through my first exercise I knew I was in for a huge blast on my muscles. Well, it was hard, but it was awesome! I think I will stay on this program and see what kind of results I get. So far, all I know is that this is the hardest I have ever worked out in my life!
Coming soon!!!
10/07/2004
I am feeling: Excited!
Holy Smokes! Do you realize that it is only another short 12 days!!! “Until what?” you ask…
SHAME ON YOU!
Didn’t you know that the new Shane & Shane album comes out on the 19th! Trust me, I have listened to a few songs and it is gonna be top-shelf! Check out their site and give their tunes a listen: www.shaneandshane.com It is gonna be good times!
S&S
Get it? Got it? Good!
Coincidence? I think NOT!
10/05/2004
I am feeling: like I need to change my shorts
I thought I was gonna die today! I was driving down the street when all of a sudden I heard a huge explosion behind me! I turned around and saw that it wasn’t an explosion, but that my entire rear windshield in my car had shattered! Now I have worked in the windshield industry for a couple years in the past, and let me tell you…I have NEVER seen anything like this before. I have my own little conspiracy theory about what happened too…
I recently acquired a George W. Bush sticker for my car (my rear windshield to be exact!). I have noticed that since I have put the decal up, I get a smile and a wave from some (obviously Bush supporters), but nasty looks from others…
I don’t want to accuse anybody of anything, but when I got out of my car to inspect the damage, there was a little hole in the glass. At first it looks like a normal rock chip, but I thought that was odd since there were no cars or anything around when it happened. Then, upon further inspection, I noticed something that makes me think it wasn’t a rock!!! The hole actually penetrated the glass! Those of you who know anything about a rock chip are aware that the rock usually doesn’t penetrated the glass. It only chips it at the point of impact (hence the name rock “chip”). So the object must have been small enough and hit with such impact that the entire object went through. And it looks to me like the hole is just the right size for a bb.
Who knows? I could just be paranoid.
Was it a rock? Or was it a crazed member of the Demoncratic party? I mean Democrapic Party? I mean Democratic party?
Here are some pictures. You decide!!
Say no to Crack!
Suspicious?!
It shattered…and I almost shat
Vin
vin_thomas@msn.com
Remember?
10/05/2004
I am feeling: Nostalgic
I just remembered something really funny! I don’t know if you were aware, but I have two beautiful girls. Lucy and Jezebel are their names. They are ball pythons. I don’t know how much you know about snakes, but they only go to the bathroom about once a week. Well, it was the summer of two years past, and Tom and I were heading to play softball with the church league. It was always a good time. I decided that it would be a good day to take my girls for an outing, so they came along too. Everyone was gathered around to see the snakes. Tom took one and even put it around is neck to show everyone how gentle they were.
And that is when it happened… Lucy let loose all over Tom’s shirt. The slimy remains of a digested mouse left streaks up and down the front of his nice T. I have never been so proud (single tear!). It was really funny…I’m sure that Tom would disagree. But at least I got a good laugh out of it!
Here is a picture of us just hanging out one night 
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Happy Family vin_thomas@msn.com
Not that bad…
10/03/2004
I am feeling: Good!
Well, first off, I want to say sorry for being such a grump lately! It seems like all I have written about lately has been real negative. But just so y’all know, there is some really cool stuff going on in my life! I have been in Salem for just over a month, and I am really loving it! It is a really beautiful place. I am beginning to find those little “hole-in-the-wall” places that make a town so cool. I am at a really neat coffee shop right now! It really just an old house that has been converted to a little shop. It is really cool (and it has wireless internet too!). My studying has been pretty much non-stop. I love my classes so much! There are so many great teachers here! It is such a blessing to be able to sit under them. I do get a little lonely sometimes, but that is being solved slowly as I get to meet new people and make new friends. I will probably be here for the next 3 years working towards my Masters of Divinity. And after that…who knows? Maybe I will go to get my Doctorate right away?! Or maybe I will plug into a ministry and work on it slowly!??! It is all up to the Lord. Well, I better get back to the Book. Talk to you later!
Vin
vin_thomas@msn.com
Bugged
10/03/2004
I am feeling!
My watch was bugging me. It wouldn’t stay facing the right way on my wrist. That was really ticking me off. So I just took it off and put it in my pocket.
Do you ever have those days when everything seems to bug you? I do. I am having one right now. It bugs me that it is so hot in this coffee shop. It bugs me that I can’t go to the bathroom because I am scared someone will steal my laptop. It bugs me that my coffee wasn’t hot and now it is all gone. It bugs me that I don’t have a job. It bugs me that these earphones suck. It bugs me that I can sit here and complain when I am so blessed. I am just easily bugged today. I shouldn’t. But I am. That’s just the way I am.
Vin
vin_thomas@msn.com
