Impersonations

Here's a great impersonation...

It's Chuck Dowdle...

impersonating Will Ferrell..

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impersonating Harry Carey...

talking about picking up trash when you tailgate.

My Funny Story of the Day

Here's a guest post for you...Trisha's wanted to write a blog for quite some time. I've tried to get her to start her own thing, but to no avail, so I'm giving her a chance on here...so here it goes.

I have this comment that I make to Brody from time to time asking him if he wants to hear “My Funny Story of the Day”. I often mention that I should blog about some the stories, so tonight I decided to do so.

So, here is My Funny Story of the Day:

I work with this awesome lady named Gwen. Super cool lady, outgoing, personable, LOVES the Lord,..and works in prison ministry…yes, I said prison ministry. Today over our awesome convo, she shared a few amazing stories from her time in the prison ministry. Stories that gave me chill bumps, that made me tear up a bit, and one story in particular that made me laugh…out loud.

One evening she was at a prison in Lousianna just hanging out and speaking with the women there. A shorter, much older, stern looking woman came up to her with a pondering look on her face. Gwen said, “hello” and from there the woman responded with, “I hear you know a lot about the Bible. Well, I got a question for you.” Gwen replied with, “let’s hear what you’ve got.” The lady proceeds to ask this question: “So when I get outta this place…and I get out there and get me a man…what kinda sin am I gonna be committin? Is it adultery? Or fornication? What’s the difference between the two?”

Gwen, pausing, slightly giggling to her herself due to not expecting that blunt or specific of a question, responded with, “It depends. Are you married?”

The woman leaned back, gained her thoughts and said, “Well, I’m a home-made widow, so I guess not.”

Yes, folks…HOME-MADE WIDOW. I laughed. Yes, this woman was in prison for first degree murder of her husband and she called herself a ‘home-made widow’. Too funny.

But it doesn’t stop there.

After Gwen realized the implication behind her statement (and holding back her humor she found in the statement), she then asked, “ma'am, how much longer do you have of your sentence here in prison?”

The woman responded by saying that she received a one hundred year sentence and had a good bit of time left. Gwen’s final response and wisdom to share with the woman was she didn’t think she needed to worry about the difference J

That, my friends (or Brody’s friends) is my ‘funny story of the day’

Thanks and come again.

Youth Minister

I've been a youth minister for 6 1/2 years now. It's crazy to think it's been that long.

When people ask me what I do, and how I spend most of my time, I've come to realize that its kind of like the Utility Man in baseball...you play all the positions on the field.

I came across this video the other day that pretty much sums it all up. So here it is:

The life of a Youth Minister

That's my job.

Housage

We bought a house.

(note the new address)

Our grand entrance (don't worry, we've trimmed the hedges)

Our garage

Our vaulted living room

Our screened in porch

Our kitchen

The Master Bedroom...

where the magic happens...and by magic, I mean sleeping

The Master Bath

There are two other bedrooms and a bath that I didn't quite capture with film. If you are really curious, you'll just have to come by and see it.

Our first project is removing the horrendous wallpaper. That part is done. It was a bit of a pain, but we are on our way. We'll be painting soon so I'll give you before and after pictures in another update.

Also...there is a huge yard that you may or may not be able to make out in the pictures. If you have any yard tools you want to rid yourself of, let me know.

So...all this to say that if you are ever in the Athens Area and you need a place to crash, give me a call. We'd love to share with you.

Update: House Hunting

We spent an hour and a half with a mortgage broker yesterday.
We spent another hour or so at Home Depot looking at tile, appliances, carpet, paint, lawn mowers, sheds...you name it.
(I'm pretty sure Trisha grabbed 60 different paint color sample cards)
We spent the rest of the evening waiting to hear back about our bid.

10:30 this morning we found out we didn't get the house...

A little deflating...especially after contemplating porcelain vs. ceramic tile on a house we didn't even own yet...

But, alas, there'll be other ones.
In the words of Brian, in Saving Private Brian

There's a lot of fish in the sea.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
If it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be.

So, it's back to the drawing board...or searching board...or at least looking board.
Off to find another house.

House Hunting

Trisha and I found a house that we are considering making an offer on....

Did I really just say that? It's crazy to think about having a mortgage, where up until now the most expensive thing we've purchased together has been a mattress. Scary.

Nonetheless, the immense amount of stimulus money being handed out, packaged with the great interest rates, wrapped in the deals that foreclosures bring, and sprinkled with our desire to have a place of our own that we can minister in and with has led us up to this point.

So...here's what I want to do...I'm gonna give you some pictures of the "potential" house to look at, and you give your thoughts....

Ready, Set, Go...

Here's the house...it's quaint...it's on main street


There is this wicked awesome pecan tree on the left side...
have I ever told you how much I love pecans?

This is the driveway side of the house. It has a back deck that opens out to this side.
There is also a little pond on the far left of the picture that was built in.
It's home to a lot of mosquitoes right now.


From the far back corner of the property...more than likely where I would have some sort of shed/barn/man cave. It's got quite a yard too.


The deck itself would serve as quite the entertainment area with plenty of room for a grill, table, umbrella and jacuzzi??? (I'm kidding about the jacuzzi...or am I?)


This bay window is the outside of the kitchen breakfast table area...it's a nice touch.


Back around to the front of the house, we have the front porch.
It's not huge, but we may be able to squeeze a rocking chair on there.


As we head into the house, this is a view looking back towards the front door.
This is standing in the kitchen with the hallway is there on the left, a nice mail sorter there in the middle and an entrance to the dining room on the right.


This is the kitchen breakfast area with the laundry room veering off to the left. You can see the back door as well, leading out onto the deck. (I'm not a fan of this wallpaper)


Here is the kitchen...we will need a refrigerator. This also triples the amount of cabinet space that we currently have.


This is the dining room area. We aren't very big on dining rooms, but it has a nice touch and we do like the hardwood floors. Perhaps we could open it up and make a gigantor living room someday.


And here is the living room. Yes , it is very bright, and yes those windows are huge, and yes it is painted baby diarrhea green...sorry for the imagery...but it is really a gross color....
We're already taking into account the cost of buying paint.


And now for the upstairs...


Bright colored room number one...


Bright colored room two...


The 2nd bathroom (also upstairs).
ps. I failed to take a picture of the downstairs half bath


The master bedroom...not huge, but a good size
In the words of some of my youth, "That carpet is narsty."
We'll have to buy some new carpet so we can walk without shower shoes


The master closet...which is fairly deep...and it has a window....
not really sure why, but there's one in there.


And lastly, the master bathroom...it's got a toilet tucked away to the left, a shower/bath to the right and this double vanity....and again, I believe with all my heart that all wallpaper containing floral patterns as such should be banned from the United States.

Well there you have it.
This is the house we are looking at and might just possibly put a bid on.

So what do you think? It's a little bit of a fixer upper...
Do you think it's manageable?
Can you see this as the future Bearden residence?

Buttons

I was cleaning through some old stuff in my office recently when I came across something...a button.

During college, I got my hands on a Badge-a-Mint machine. It makes buttons. Maybe you've never experienced one of these machines, but for me, it gave me the same sensation that my deep fryer does...whatever it is, deep fry it...whatever it is, button it.

So I made buttons, four of them to be precise. One for each roommate. Andrew, Cal, Matt, & Myself. My thought process was this: 1) We entertained a lot. 2)There were very few nights that we didn't have something going on and our apartment was always buzzing with people. 3) What better way to inform people of who we were and let people feel more welcomed...because after all, what says "Make yourself at home" better than well developed button?

The premise was that we could wear these buttons as name badges whenever we threw parties.
A ridiculous idea? Perhaps. Still worth trying? Absolutely.

Here's the result:

(ps. 2 Doors Down was the name of our apartment)

Good times.