top 5 best things about being home in michigan

5. small spiders...seriously, those monsters in vancouver must be on crank

4. cheap golf (with my good buddy craig playford)...great courses here for almost no money

3. my imac (why did i ever leave you, baby - you know daddy loves you)

2. my trailer-trash above ground pool (p.s. only i am allowed to make fun of my pool...if you make fun of it i'll drown you in 5,000 gallons of toddler pee)

1. i'm still not dieting

x-files movie the worst ever

i love the x-files

i've watched every episode. i've fantasized about having 'i want to believe' tattooed on my back.

i even thought gillian anderson was pretty when she had SHORT hair (that, btw, makes me a true believer)

but this movie is the worst movie ever. it's almost as bad as learning that Jvo sang karaoke Billy Joel to the crowd at lollapalooza ("uptown girl"...seriously, dude, we need to have a talk about what kinds of things are gay).

anyway,
x-files has the following dumb-ness en force:

* a pedophile priest...
* who brings mulder and scully out of their 10-yr affair in a shack in the woods...
* via his god-given visions of dismemberment...
* which leads to a woe-begotten tale of a same sex marriage gone wrong...
* because husband #1 is dying...
* and requires husband #2, who is a russian (of course) scientist (of course x2) to save his life...
* through means of his top-secret head-transplant research (yup, you saw that correctly)...
* which has so far only been successful on dogs (oh yeah, there is a two-headed(double the success) guard dog in here that bites mulder, presumably for having a beard that looks like big bob's baptist church threw away after using it for joseph at christmas)...
* but they're stopped just in the knick of time so that mulder and scully can look longingly at other failed tv show pilots and b-movies


my favorite part? the fact that husband #2 transplants husband #1's head onto the body of a women, as if to say "i really, really love you, man...but maybe i'd prefer your wiskers if they were attached to breasts"

do not go see this stupid movie.

publishing

just spent about an hour talking with my good friend (and editor) caleb seeling at navpress. he told me some good news, that navpress has decided to publish my work on genesis + the imago dei.

look for "jerm" by yours truly in the summer of 2010.

back in traction

we arrived home around 4am and i shot off to work at the winds around 11.

i love this place.

i love the staff. i love the people. i love the smell of the building, the uneven tile, the rusty concrete scultpures, and the 600 emails waiting eagerly for me to 'delete all' without any feelings of guilt whatsoever.

it's good to be back.

wow this is a long vacation...

...and i'm having a great time - no stress, no worry, sense of confidence that ww is doing great in my absence

but i've been off so long it doesn't feel like vacation, it feels like unemployment

(which, btw, it's not...or, at least it wasn't when i left :)

i'm having lots of fun with carmel and the kids, but i miss my job. i really love what do and i love where i'm doing it. the winds has given me a place to follow my convictions and lead in ways that feel right and true - and i can't wait to get back into the saddle with john and dive into the fall (no freudian readings here please...and, sorry for mixing the metapors)

anyways, 10 more vacation days to go.

loving vacation

loving vacation right now...kids, fun food, family, adventures

having fun fooling around with tumblr, squidoo, and weebly as well. i left my mac in j-town, so i'm back in pc-ville (which sucks, btw, i'm sooo happy with mac)

anyway, things are good. i'm destressing about genesis...i think there's good fruit bound for the winds. my aim really is to help us grow in our understanding and knowledge of god, and to help our kids grow in the same way. we're at an impasse with science and the christian world, and i think our series in genesis will push us toward a god-honoring + scripture-loving reconciliation between the two.

i'll need some prayer for that series though - it'll either be the best ever, or my last ever :)

tumblr micro blog

i know i said i wouldn't be blogging on my vacation (because it'd feel like work) but i've been playing around with tumblr and i think i'm gonna use it as my travel blog.

there's a tumblr roll on the bottom left side of this blog where you can follow my updates, or just go to guerillahost.tumblr.com.