Mind Dump

My brain feels constipated with thoughts. The following is a brain dump of all the random stuff going on in my head.

• Last night Derrick Phillips sent me a text with a picture of the new Chick-fil-A spicy chicken sandwich. Derrick is a Community Group Facilitator at WEC and a member brought some to his group. The catch is the sandwich doesn't officially become available till June. So the next thing I know Derrick is headed over to my house and he brings me a sandwich. Let me just say it was lip smacking good.
• It's playoff time in the NBA. The only bad thing about being a Lakers fan is that they play on the West Coast. Home games don't start till 10:30 PM my time. It's awful hard to stay up that late. Lucky for me my wife stayed up with me last night to watch the game. She's awesome!
• Karen Smith, Director of Preschoolers and Kids, bought the WEC staff pedometers. She gave us a little challenge to keep track of our steps each day. She even gave us charts to write out our steps for the week. Yesterday = 10,876 for me.
• I'm coming up on a really busy few weeks.
• Friday I'm speaking with Lead Pastor Stu Hodges to the Leadership staff at the YMCA. I'm honored he asked me to join him.
• Saturday I'm doing a wedding near Richmond for Rich Grasso. Rich is one of my Student Leaders and I'm honored to be a part of his special day.
• Monica (my wife) and I have a Dr.'s appointment today. We are meeting with her OBGYN to talk about our next steps to get pregnant. I just talked to a couple that is pregnant with their second child via in-vitro. It was very interesting talking with them. It's expensive. She told me that they took out a loan. They said it's something that they did to buy a car, so why not for a baby? I mean a baby is a way better investment than a car.
• I may or may not have bought a PS3. I received some money for a wedding and for speaking at a couple of Youth Ministry classes at Liberty University. Monica said it should be fun money. She said it's not money that we budgeted or count on. She said I should buy a Blue Ray player. I said that I might as well spend a little bit more and get a PS3. That way I'm getting a Blue Ray player and a game system. I really hate spending money on myself. I feel bad. I made sure I tithed 10% of the money back to God. I hope I wasn't foolish with the 90% I had left. After resisting for a few nano-seconds Monica talked me into buying it. I still have some money left over. I'm going to hold onto that for a little while.
• I haven't bought any games for the PS3. It will be a little while before I do. I am however very excited to borrow Arkam Asylum from one of my students. It's a Batman game and I've heard it's most excellent.
• I filmed the first of two new videos last night for our new series at WEC. It's called Capacity and the first video was ha-larious to film.
• Excited to hang with Josh Bayne this weekend. Josh will be leading worship for us while Phil Poteat is on vacay.
• Monica's last class of the semester for William & Mary is Thursday. I'm so proud of her! She's rocking her masters. 30 credits down and only 9 left. Even though I'm very proud of her I still let her know that my masters is higher than hers. William & Mary is a very prestigious school, but I have a Masters of Divinity. God trumps everything else every time.
• Next week our staff is going to the Drive Conference in the ATL. It's a conference put on by North Point Community Church aka Andy Stanley's church. I'm very excited about it.
• If you live in or near VA you should check out Whiteboard. It's one day, 7 influential leaders, for 30 minutes each.
• I've been watching season 1 of the A-Team. Brings me back to my childhood and it pumps me up for the new movie!
• I've really been digging Full Throttle Energy Drinks. What's your energy drink of choice?
• Countdown 9 days till Iron Man 2 hits theaters. Can you dig it????!!!

Whew...I feel better now.