This past weekend was a great learning experience for me. It was a true blessing to be able to go to the MCBC conference, and people keep asking me how was it. My responses have been of 2 ways, I would either say it was fun because it was. Or I would say that their isn't really word to describe it, much like God, I mean He is just so great and loving that it is just so hard to think of so many words to describe Him. It was a blessing to play Big 2 till like 3 a.m. friday night with Enoch, Brian, and Rich. Plus Pastor Larry was laying the smackdown on Michelle about women's role :) This conference was blessed with 3 great speakers including GP B, such as Pastor Hsueh, and Pastor Peoples. I really learned a lot from them about what they spoke of. I met a lot of God loving brothers and sisters as well whom i will be praying for such as Pastor Larry (even though I've met him before but now we are closer), J. Ho (woooo scary thought these Ho's keep coming out of no where right B :)), T.Z., Michelle, Billy, John, and Michael. Again this conference was just such a totally awesome experience that I will never forget. I'm also glad that E and B came with their CGC crew, plus it was fun to lay a little CCUC trash talking to some of the other churches.

Going up to MSU back and forth I learned of a few things. Like Paul said in Phil. 4:8 I'll just dwell about the good things about it. I got to sleep over my sister's house and it's funny that deep down I know that we both love each other a great deal but well she doesn't show it as much as she use to when we were little. Her room almost brought a tear to my eye because I never realized she put up a bunch of pics of us when we were little back in the day at 15 mile and Van Dyke. It has soooooooo many pictures of us, hugging and holding hands together. Gosh I miss those days and I'm glad that we got to spend time together.

And finally last night was the end of the regular season at OU. We played against VC which I thought should be an easy win and so I didn't really put much effort myself until I started realizing that the whole team wasn't either so I guess we were a little over confident. Plus I ws bummed that Beth didn't do her presentation after we spent so much time together Sunday night at my house putting it together. All I have to say though is after last night, this is the beginning of a new rivalry. Their is a great rivalry between us and Grone, but that is more of a we respect each other's skill type of game. The new one we have now is Titans vs. VC and this rivalry is more of a Red Wings and Avs blood bath rivalry, it's the type of rivalry where we pretty much hate each other.

Yeah we lost last night 2-1 going into the middle of the 4th game that we were leading in. We pretty much let them have the first one and their second one was our fault, and then we got down to business. 3rd game we took over then time ran out in the middle of the 4th. The officiating sucked completely as no calls went our way. Stan got called for a lift when it wasn't because it his palm while VC does the same thing and does not get called for it. I got called for a lift when I did a one hand set. But am I totally blaming the refs no because that wasn't the thing that killed us.

I can take a lost when our team is giving it their all. However VC's win, made me lose whatever respect I had for them. As we got into the 3rd game and we were dominating them. They decided to stall for time by rolling the ball as slow as possible back to us. Or they would just drop the ball on the ground and do a little love tap and kind of blow it back to our side. Or when it was their ball, we would give back to them, but I love how they would pretend that the ball we be tossed over their head or it rolled too fast past them so it could go all the way down to the end of the court, then they can just take their time walking back and forth getting the ball. Then when they finally do get the ball they would pretend they tossed the ball so horrible that they couldn't serve so they can get their re-do. You know it gets a little ridculous when our sub has to stand on their end of the court to retrieve the ball for both teams.

Mike and I were pretty close to dropping our gloves and laying the smackdown on D and Joe. However Joe made himself look like a jackass already by trying to toss the ball badly so he can get a redo his serve. Yeah however pal, you can't touch while it's in the air so that made you look real smart. I couldn't believe I shook their hands after the game. I already tried to put in a special request so that we could face them in the first round of the playoffs despite us being the number 1 seed. Fricking motherlovers were lucky I couldn't hit and go at any SS level since we were playing 5-1 and I had to set. Boy setting gets pretty tiring with all the running around you have to do. Anyways, that's all the steam I had to blow off, so VC you better win so we can take y'all on in the finals. Don't worry about us rolling the ball as slowly as possible either when we're up 2-0 because Stan, Mike, and I are just gonna hit hard, and hit it fast.

If ya smell la la la la la la wooooooo hold up VC you lost your singing privelges with The Rattlesnake. Y'all can no longer sing with The People's champ, so just know your role and shut your mouth.........
Is Cooking?

Another snowy morning and I can't believe it took me an hour to get to school today. I walk into lovely MTE a half hour late only to find myself as the 7th student in class. I found myself a lone for the first 20 minutes because I had no Wendy, no Emily, no Melanie, and no Kelly. Then as time kept flying, one by one they walked into class. Then a beacon of hope as dawned upon in this class to still succeed when I was talking to Emily. It turns out that their is extra credit like crazy on his website so I know where to go to boost my grade up.

So what happened to me Tuesday night? Well first off I'm sorry to those who I turned off that night and it was like I was ashamed at some point to call myself a Christian. Maybe that's why Howard was there to share that night. I guess I just had a lot of things built up inside after Tuesday I learned more about my past then I kept dwelling upon as one of those "what if I did this" type of thing, would my life be different. Then it just snow balled down as I felt that I didn't play that well, especially not good enough to carry our team to at least one win. However, I keep thinking back at what Howard and Dan were trying to say which was winning isn't everything. It's like if winning isn't your goal then why the GG are you playing? Then you can expand on it by saying like you work at a company. I mean I'm sure you're always gonna put in a 100% everyday and do your best to move on up that ladder. I mean who the GG goes to work to put in some half-ass effort to go no where. Or how bout let's say the NBA, every team is trying to win, I doubt one team let's say the Cavs are gonna say ok let's be a lottery bound team each year. Or even being a Christian, everyday we should try to walk and serve in the Lord at 100%. I mean what kind of a Christian wakes up every morning, and says eh I don't think I'm gonna liv by some of the fruits today or I'll only live by some of the Scriptures like the rich young man. So it's all about being motivated, and staying competitive. So if you ain't in it to win it then you better not stick wit it. 100% everyday, hit it strong and hit it fast.

Anyways time to pack, head up to Spartan land. Time to get down with Dustin and his club boyz in v-ball and let's take it to another level baby. Praise the Lord too for brother Kin.

More Than That

Allllllllrightyyyyy then, it looks like my MTE prof does not like me since I don't like him. Ok, he always tells us to go beyond the problem which I did on this one quiz prob. Apparently now I get marked down for it, and what the GG, he talks about partial credit, yet I did not receive any on some of my answers. All I can say he is a fricking cock, and if we weren't in school, I would whoop that stuttering candy-ass no doubt about it. What else that is annoying is this fricking Big Mama that sits in the front because she constantly tries to suck up, and worst part about it is that she thinks she is like cool. Well she should know her role and shut her mouth too. Oh my chicken I should of listened to everyone when they told me to drop this mothercanucker.

On the bright side of things, I'm glad that I can make SCS entertaining. One thing that I lack in that class is the fruit of being self-controlled because for 2 weeks straight now I've been warned or I would sit out in the hall for disrupting the class. But that's aight, I love Prof. D because she's just playing with me, she wouldn't really kick her most adorable student out in the hall would she?

Last night, was round 2 of Grone vs. Titans, and their was a crowd to see this one since the last game ended up in a tie. I felt good because during our pre-game huddle I got the team fired up and that we are either gonna win or lose, no ties. What's funny is that, the crowd was cheering against us which was fine because I like to play in hostile places, it just gets me going even more. The team is really starting to reflect on my own identity meaning that we are out there to win, we're confident and show no fear on the court. Some can say we are a little cocky now too. I mean game 3, Melissa and Mike wanted to just let them win so we can play longer, gosh how cocky is that because they knew we were gonna win the series. Also just look at the girls on our team compared to their's, our girls love to try to dig any of Joey and his boy's kills. While his girls take cover when Stan, Mike, and I are in the air, what was really funny was when Joey forgot to block me and he just let out a "Oh shit'. Or how bout when he dove to try to save the ball which he did, but it landed right over our net and Stan killed it straight back down on him, actually it almost hit him in the GG. Mike and Maegan were clicking last night too what was up with that? What was funny was after we swept them, Grone had a team meeting to kind of build up their team morale. Maegan's response "Ok y'all can get your asses off the court now because no pep talk is gonna help y'all out". And some of them wonder why we are the most hated teams in the league right now, or maybe we are the most hated because we're entering the playoffs again as the number 1 seed?

A good benefit about being tight with some of the higher peeps that work at the Rec Center is being able to mess around with other players. Like Brandon was telling me and I gotta agree that D from VC is a soft bacon nigga. What was freaky was seeing a couple of girls getting something on and B just kept shouting out some good ol lesbian action. Other than MTE, I gotta say that this semester is one of my best ones by far at OU.

Best I Ever Had

Wow is my area lucky or what, I don't think I got hit as bad as some other areas did this snowy morning. Woohoo and praise God to cancel school today, no student teaching today which meant extra sleep. Which was much needed for my body after the past 2 nights of averaging a good ol' 3 hours of sleep due to term paper, and science presentation projects. Hmmm I wonder if I could be so fortunate to get another day off for tomorrow so I don't have to study for this dumb MTE quiz? Well I'm about to continue my streak of watching A Walk To Remember again for the 4th straight day now. It was fun just kind of working out in this weather too, it was amazing too this morning. As I drove this morning to get some gas for the snow blower, an accident happened right on 25 mile next to my sub. A Grand Am flew right into the ditch, landing at an ackward angle.

Well what I can I say but now I can check off another championship for v-ball in Troy. Thanks Rob for giving me the scouting report on their 2 big guns. Gosh, I read those guys like a book, and I love the fact that they had a little crowd with them too. I love it when a team brings fans, it just gets me going even more. I don't know what drove me to do this but after this one kill, I just looked over and gave the team and the crowd, the throat slitting action and mouthing that it is over. I just want to thank Phil and Wa for giving me the opportunity to play on their team. Nice play with Charlie and Kevin, eh I guess Hong too but buddy just remember to listen to your own advice. Now it's time to wrap up the OU league, and continue the quest for a 3 peat.

Last night's Piston's game was da bomb, because I got to see one of my fav's in the NBA, Stevie Franchise. Now I can say that I got to high five Ben Wallace, Cliff Robinson, Zelly, Corliss Williamson, and Tayshaun Prince. Plus what was cool was getting to take a picture with Rudy Tomjanovich. Dang it if only I brought my camera inside with me.

Anyways, I guess I could study now but eh might as well enjoy my little 1 day break to it's max. In other words, yes I am the king of all procrastinators.

California Dreamin

As my Spring Break draws to a sad end, I must say it was fun hanging out last night at Rich's even though I wasn't expecting it. I guess after this whole week of trying to commit myself to doing nothing but homework, projects, and student teaching that I needed a break. It was fun because I learned a couple of interesting things last night. I'll just name the top thing that stuck out to me is that my sister Cathy is a Survivor freak too! Have fun in the Windy City this week, and let's see if some of us guys can talk to my brotha Steve to doing a guys night :)

Ok so for the past week or so I've been praying about what my spring will look like due to the fact of my option of going for a double minor or not. Now I go for it then I gotta stay a lil longer in school, if I don't then of course I get out sooner. Well I got my spring catalog today to see what class I was thinking about registering for. It seems that through my prayers God has given me a chance to take 2 classes this semester. Now in the past, I was like heck no because I don't think I could handle it. But I don't know why today I'm just looking at it, and I'm actually considering taking 2 classes, 1 major and 1 for my minor, now can I handle it? Hmmm I must go into deeper meditation on this one.

Also I haven't done this in a while since last summer, my Dumb Customer of the Day Award at the restaurant. Well I have a couple that should win but I have a better idea for today. Here's how you know if you've been educated by the city of Lapeer, if I ask you a pint or a quart and you respond by saying I want the smaller one. Gosh I hate to be mean but it gets so irritating, sometimes when they say that I just respond back by saying yeah the pint or the quart, just so they learn something besides just getting their food.

More Than That