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2009

2009-01-02T17:15:00.004-05:00

"...you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away."

James 4:14,15

2008-06-16T17:16:00.000-05:00

2008-04-14T20:09:00.004-05:00

Hey, I just came across a pretty kewl song that hit me... it's called Deathbed by Relient K... it's about a guy that's dying and looking back on his life... anyway, here's the the last piece of the song where he remembers the night of his conversion...

I was so scared of Jesus
But He sought me out
Like the cancer in my lungs
That's killing me now
And I've given up hope
On the days I have left
But I cling to the hope
Of my life in the next
Then Jesus showed up
Said "Before we go
I thought that we might reminisce
See one night in your life
When you turned out the light
You asked for and prayed for My forgiveness

"You cried wolf
The tears they soaked your fur
The blood dripped from your fangs
You said, 'What have I done?'
You loved that Lamb
With every sinful bone
And there you wept alone
Your heart was so contrite

"You said, 'Jesus, please forgive me of my crimes
Sanctify this withered heart of mine
Stay with me until my life is through
And on that day please take me home with you"'

I can smell the death on the sheets
Covering me
I can't believe this is the end
I can hear You whisper to me,
"It's time to leave
You'll never be lonely again"

But this was my deathbed
I died there alone
When I closed my eyes tonight
You carried me home

'I am the Way
Follow Me
And take My hand
And I am the Truth
Embrace Me and you'll understand
And I am the Light
And for Me you'll live again
For I am Love
I am Love
I am Love'"

no more cats here...

2008-03-27T19:45:00.002-05:00

ya... the cat made the mistake of going for the fridge at the same time as my brother yesterday... i'm sure some chinese guy will enjoy him now...

2008-02-10T14:44:00.000-05:00

hey everyone, so i'm really ready for winter to be over... I am very ready for spring and summer to get here, so since I'm in that mood here are some pictures from a weekend when brian and jeremy were at my house last summer...

...of Him, through Him, to Him...

2007-11-11T17:03:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone, wow I'm posting two days in a row; I looked that up and I have not done that since January, but whatever...
I just decided to post because of something that kind of stood out to me in this afternoon's service. It was a sermon on the final verses of Romans 11. To put this in perspective, I looked up the last time I wrote about a sermon, which was on January 21. That sermon was on Romans 8:32,33. Both of these sermons have been in the series my Pastor has done on the book Romans, beginning when he came to our congregation two years ago. So in January we were on Romans 8 and today we had the final sermon on the section of Romans 9-11. That's 3 chapters in 10 months. In that time most Sunday's involved a Romans sermon. I would say we're going through it very thoroughly, which is actually really nice. These sermons are always very thought-provoking as well as convicting, and through God's grace our Pastor has really helped our congregation delve through one of the most complex books in the Scriptures.

Ok, that took longer than I thought it would, but now to the sermon from today. The sermon was called Of Him, Through Him, to Him, Amen, and it focused on Romans 11:33-36:

"Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
"For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has become his counselor? Or who has first given to Him And it shall be repaid to him?"
"For of Him and through Him, and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen."

Chapters 9-11 of Romans dealt quite a bit with God's choosing of His people, and how He works the Holy Spirit in one person, bringing them to salvation in His grace and mercy, but another person he does not choose. Also, the rejection of Israel as a nation at the time when the Gentiles were brought the gospel was dealt with in these chapters very thoroughly by Paul. The verses from beginning of chapter 9-11:32 are very doctrinal as Paul delves through these issues, but in 11:33 he steps back.

Paul has just been going through some very difficult issues for even a Christian to think about, and then he stops and gives praise to God. He realizes that even if one would understand all the things he has just been writing about, that he wouldn't even come close to fully understanding God's mind.

The thing in all of this that Pastor Bylsma brought up was the issue of the Lord commanding us to glorify Him. As humans, that can sound very selfish. We don't like people who are always bringing attention to themselves and need to make other people believe that they are better than everyone else and therefore should be treated better. We would tell a person like that to be humble. So, even if the Lord is perfect and deserving of our praises and glory, doesn't it seem a little wrong that He commands us to do so? He tells us to worship Him and Him alone, to glorify Him, and Him alone, to find rest in Him and Him alone?

The answer of course is no.

We, as Christians have to realize that when the Father commands to praise Him for who He is, He does so out of mercy and love for us.

If we receive our salvation by worshipping God alone, wouldn't it be cruel for Him to tell us to worship someone else? If we are saved by giving glory to the Lord alone, would it not be cruel to tell us to give glory to someone else? If we would be restless anywhere but in our Father's arms, how could a Father who loves us so much tell us to try to find rest anywhere else?

God does not tell us to glorify Him in the arrogant way a talented athlete would, ignorant of where his ability's come from. God commands us to love Him, to worship Him, to give Him glory, to find our rest in Him. He does so because of Him and through Him alone and to Him are all things. God tells us to glorify us to because of His love.

It really is awesome and amazing how each day we can look at another aspect of our Father and realize that He does everything for our sake. He is so beyond our understanding that if we are constantly in His Word we will learn more of His greatness and be amazed each time until the day we leave this world.

Wow, if you made it all the way through this post congratulations.. I'm sorry if it doesn't make sense perfectly... When I rant, it doesn't always come out the way it was in my head... I hope you weren't completely bored or confused by it...

...for Brian

2007-11-10T16:22:00.000-05:00

I am pretty sure that this clip was made just for Brian since it involves his two favorite things...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=g0v5ItCjXkQ

My new car

2007-09-23T18:00:00.001-05:00

...so I've had a lot of time on my hands lately, and I decided I would use it to buy a new car... here it is...

Weekend in Port Burwell

2007-09-05T20:13:00.000-05:00

Well, it's been two months since my last post. I decided to keep my blog alive, I guess enough people told me to keep it up...

So anyways, after an amazing week at Tamarak, a bunch of people from my church and some other friends decided that we weren't tired enough and went camping at Port Burwell. After getting home at around 5pm on Friday from Tamarak, Brian and I ate at my house and within 2 hours were back on the road. We got set up and then with a few of us went down to the beach for a while, where we were interrogated by a beach patrol... well actually Jeremy interrogated him about his truck more than anything else, but whatever..

So about the only night we got any real sleep was Saturday night so that we would all be able to stay awake in church on Sunday.... the rest of the time we spent playing cards, risk, on the beach playing soccer, volleyball, frisbee and baseball... there were plenty of interesting things that happened ... but you'll have to ask me in person because I don't think I want to write them all down here.

Anyways, here are some pictures from the weekend... b4 the Tamarak reunion anyways... we had an amazing site that overlooked the beach and had tons of room... alright well enjoy the pictures... hope you all can come next year...

Last post?

2007-07-05T19:51:00.001-05:00

So I'm thinking of taking this blog down. No one does too much on the blogs anymore. Scotty took his down already; the last time I talked to him, Andrew said he was likely going to take his down as well ;)... but ya, theres not really too much going on here anymore... so either you guys will convince me to keep this up or this is my last post...

... ya so here's a random picture of my backyard...

the weekend

2007-06-07T17:47:00.000-05:00

It's been quite a while since my last post so I thought I'd throw something up here. Last weekend was pretty fun and I have a couple pics from it so I guess I'll talk about that.

Ya, so I had the weekend off so I got to sleep in, take it easy, enjoy the sun. I washed my truck and then a bunch of ppl came over later for a high school reunion for my brothers old class... for some reason scotty came along... hmm..

anyways, i also invited brian and jeremy over for the weekend, and we had quite a bit of fun cruising around oxford county causing trouble.. well most of it i can't tell you about... so i'll just say we went to the driving range by the drive-in... drove into town for a bit, then came back to my place where a campfire was going.. after a little bit of soccer it was dark and we shot some roman candles, using jeff van mepp for target practice.. good times..

umm ya, so most of the ppl left and the few of us left hung out for a while, went to my church the next day and played some hockey at my church that night with some of my yps... ok ... so now that you are all thoroughly bored... i'm gonna go ..

post for the sake of posting

2007-04-11T15:25:00.000-05:00

well... i don't really have much to say, but i decided i needed to post becuz everytime i come to my blog i get depressed right now... becuz of that last post ... anyways here are some previously never-before-seen pictures from barrie... it'll be like an extended special editition of a dvd... like dumb and dumber uncut... ya thats pretty much what it is...alright enjoy

the clubhouse... o i miss the hot tub so much

Git-r-done Leafs!!

2007-04-03T15:57:00.000-05:00

Ok, so today is the one-month anniversary of my last post... so much has changed since that day... I'm such a different person than i was then... it seems like a lifetime ago...

ok actually all i've done since then is go to wellandport conference, gone to school and work, pay some nice big truck bills and play some hockey... so ya...

umm... so the picture.... Razor making a big save in Buffalo... it was nice... and now the Leafs are in the last week of the season...3 games left... if they win all 3 (which is quite possible with the teams they're playing) they are guaranteed to make the playoffs... well provided the last one they win in regulation...but thats a whole complicated explanation with shootout points and tiebreakers and things like that... so i wont get into that... all i want to say is... i know many of you havent cared much about the leafs all year...probly made fun of them...but if they make it and get anywhere will probly jump on the bandwagon.... and thats ok... its the playoffs... pretty exciting stuff... so ya... i dont care what u've said about them b4...get behind them now... it could be an exciting ride... it starts tonight against Philadelphia at 7:30

GO LEAFS!!

barrie

2007-03-03T18:12:00.000-05:00

Ok, so we had an amazing time at horshoe valley, but i really don't feel like writing out the whole story... especially since people don't really pay attention to these blogs that much anymore... so i guess what i'll do is just post a bunch of useless random facts from our trip for you to read if you want to... here are 10 things that you will never need to know:

1. hot tubs are funner in blizzards

2.there is no tim horton's near horshoe valley resort (no wonder i have memory loss)

3. most of us don't like mini-wheats (one of us does)

4. there was a gas leak at the barrie mall, so we had to leave 20 mintues into the movie we were watching

5. security guards don't like cameras

6. brian's new nickname is dwigt

7. there is a missing winecup holder in the Simcoe County URC

8. guys never get bored watching tv

9. red beards don't look kewl

10. capn' crunch tastes better in a bigger bowl

The pew

2007-02-26T10:51:00.000-05:00

Alright so we successfully made it to barrie on friday, except scott... and so yesterday we went to the famous church where scott got his fingers stuck in the wine cup holders and guess what? the pew that he broke the wine cup holders does not have wine cup holders to this day... so ya we took pictures of a good one and the one scott sat in... so there it is ... the minister called that day 2 years ago an 'infamous event'... and thought it was hilarious that scott wasn't coming till tomorrow .... funny stuff.... alright well we're having tons of fun ....we'll see you all later...

conference weekend

2007-02-12T21:01:00.000-05:00

Alright, so I need to take a break from studying for awhile, so I figured I'd tell everyone about my version of the weekend...

So Brian came to my house at around 5 and we went to the church at 6 to set up for the conference. After we were set up Dave Westy showed up and we all ate valentine heart candies while people started to show up. After a while, the candies got really gross, but we just kept eating them pretty much cuz they were there. Alright, so once everyone was there, we opened the conference... ya we said there would be a prize for loudest cheer for roll call, but ya we just wanted everyone to be loud; we had no prize, and no one said anything so it worked out good... umm so then a few of us went and figured out billeting(does anyone know why its called that?) while some more people slowly showed up.. umm then we had refreshments and stuff downstairs in the church... then we cleaned up after everyone left and I met the guys at Tim Horton's before we headed to my house... brian, scott, matt, jeremy, isaac, pete westy and derek came down... we then ate food, drank energy drinks and watched the four feathers, 3 episodes of the office and the count of monte cristo... well thats what was playing while people came in and out... some of the guys went back to tim hortons at around 2... we finally managed to get to sleep at 5, then woke up again at 7. At that point Isaac started making noise again and Pete finally let him have it and they caused chaos...lol.. good times (i'm still hearing about that boys)...

...ok so then at around 9 i got back to the church and while the speech was going on got discussion groups and maps and stuff ready... we then had lunch, went to markus's for some cold activities... umm then we went to walmart...played the walmart game... listened to a really scary lady who was giving knife presentations and giving away free paring knives... umm ya, she was cutting through a hammer for a while, it was interesting... then we went swimming, had supper... some ppl headed back to my house as our yps finished up cleanup... i went home... after a bit everyone went home... jeremy stayed over cuz he would have fell asleep at the wheel if he went anywhere... we watched the end of the leafs game and then went to bed... we went to my church, watched the peacekeeper in the afternoon and ate leftover soup from the conference... then jeremy went home, and i went to church... umm then i went to markuses at 7 and played hockey on their rink for 2 hours just to make myself good and dead tired... but hey it was worth it.. tons of fun... ok then i went home and went to bed...

well... i hope you all enjoyed the conference and look forward to seeing you all again soon... HEY BOYS!!! 2 WEEKS TO BARRIE!!!!!!!

Facebook stalkers

2007-02-04T22:04:00.000-05:00

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FahBBnfHAQ

Ok, check out this link... i give credit to mike benjamins who found this clip and posted it on facebook... this is why facebook is just a little bit sketchy... o ya, its a parody of hero by enrique iglesias if anyone cares ...

My Sidebar

2007-01-25T11:40:00.001-05:00

look i changed the colour in my sidebar..... i must be bored

He was delivered up...

2007-01-21T18:44:00.000-05:00

ok so this is a little bit random... my Pastor, preaching on Romans 8:31,32, used a quote from an 18th century commentator that really hit me... he was speaking in reference to the mercy God shows us in holding back His full wrath on us.

I think we sometimes read through the verses and maybe don't give enough thought to the words, '.. If God is for us, who can be against us?' The next verse should really emphasize the weight and importance of those words when Paul says that God didn't spare His own Son, but 'delivered Him up for us'... The Pastor went on after that to say that those words, 'delivered Him up' were used a number of times in the last 36 hours of Christ's life. There is a constant reference to Jesus being delivered by Judas to the Pharisees, by the Pharisees to Pilate, by Pilate to the Jews. Finally, Paul uses them here in Romans in reference to God delivering Him up for us. Here is the quote he used:

"He was not delivered up by Judas for money.
He was not delivered up by Pilate for fear.
He was not delivered up by the Jews for envy.
He was delivered up by the Father for Love."

Sometimes I think the position we are in as those who are saved causes us to take our salvation for granted, and we don't think of the weight of what happened here. When a child is being punished, the parent will show mercy when they hear the pain in the voice of the child. Jesus asked for the cup to be taken from Him; He cried out, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken Me." God did not show mercy. He gave the cup to Christ so that we would not have to drink it. God delivered His own Son up. For us. How amazing is that?

2007-01-16T16:40:00.000-05:00

Alright, so apparently there is something good about all this ice... I really hated it yesterday when I had to chip three inches of ice off of my truck before i could go anywhere, but today when I got home from school the sun came out and our place looked pretty kewl... so I took my mom's camera and flashed some pictures... thought some people might want to look at them... here you go...

Class picture

2007-01-15T16:58:00.000-05:00

I ran across this picture... thought it was funny... and the way every class picture should be that has a little rebel like that in it...

cheers

at school

2007-01-10T13:18:00.000-05:00

so i'm sitting here in the computer lab at school, on yet another of my two-hour breaks, and i am very bored. I already went to the mall to try to get a copy of a key made, but they couldn't do it... and then when i was leaving there i saw jeremy in the parking lot, which was weird... that never happens.... and now im back at school... and i still have 40 minutes before i have to be in class...

i guess i shouldnt be complaining... at least i dont have that much homework yet... and this way at least i keep my blog up to date...

... if scott was here with me we could terrorize someones blog like we did to jeremy's yesterday, but ya, you can't exactly do that on your own...

ummmm... so maybe ill go buy my $150 textbook... with my luck/providence... i'll likely use it twice all semester.. but the teacher says i need it so ya ... and then ill go to tim hortons... i really love having that at my disposal right here in the college... actually there are two, and they're building another one... it's great...

ok i'll c u later

Woodstock Conference 2007

2007-01-06T16:20:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone, our young people's is sending out our conference letter so I thought I would post it here too. Please tell your friends about it and come down. It will be alot of fun. O and the activities we're doing are at a farm... just thought some of you would like to know that.

Dear Young Peoples!

Our Young People's is once again planning our annual conference. The conference will take place on Friday, February 9th and Saturday, February 10th. Our speaker for this year is our own Pastor Greg Byslma. He will be speaking on the topic of God's will, not our own.

The schedule is as follows:
Friday:
7-7:30 - Registration
7:30-9:30 - Singing and Speaker

Saturday:
9:30-10 - Registration
10-11:30 - Singing and Speaker
11:30-12:15 - Discussion and Q+A period
12:15-1:15 - Lunch
1:30-3:30 - Activities
4-6 - Swimming
6:15 - Supper

What to bring:
$15 registration
Bible, notebook, pen
warm winter clothes
swimming clothes
pillows, sleeping bags (billeting)

Come on out and bring your friends! The conference is at Woodstock Bethel United Reformed Church.

the end

2007-01-04T18:13:00.000-05:00

Ok so here's the final part of my New Year's 2007 story.

We went skating. I drove home.

Everyone lived happily ever after...

New Year's - Part 2

2007-01-03T20:59:00.000-05:00

ok so apparently everyone felt cheated by me not writing about the whole weekend... so i guess ill continue my wonderful story here... i'll see how far i get since i have even less energy than last night ... i had to come home from work early cuz i was sick.. and i can't exactly walk straight... guess the weekend drained me more than I thought... ahh well... still worth it... i think...

ok... so I think I left off with us going to St. Thomas church Sunday afternoon/evening... after that we went to sing for some elderly people at Valley View, and then came back to the church for a few hours of games. Those were pretty good, although Scotty was mean making do the whole 'darling if you love me' thing... I guess I should have told everyone about what happened to him when we played that in highschool... ok i will... when we were in grade 9 and played that game on valentines day, Brian's older sister Julie started walking towards Scott and he fled outside and hid inside of a closet in one of the portables at school.

So I think after all that fun we went to Scott's house at around 2 in the morning and got to sleep at around 3 after ringing in the New Year. Umm... I think we had Matt, Brian, Jeremy, Dave, Tim, myself and of course Scotty there.

A few hours later we managed to get out of bed, probably mostly to the credit of the smell of Scotty's mom's cooking. You'll never go hungry there. We then managed to get to church on time for the New Year's service. We then headed back to Scotty's for a quick lunch, before heading to the gym. I think there were people playing volleyball, basketball, and of hockey... as well as a few misguided young gentlemen moving a certain Geo Metro in the parking lot.

So after 3 hours at the gym, some of us headed to Boston Pizza and some went across the road cuz it was so full. After Scott's j-walking incident in front of the cop and we had finished supper we headed over to Luitings to kill some time before skating by playing pool and uno.

ok... so im tired of writing... ill post the grand finale tomorrow... im sure all of you are excited to hear my version of it...

i think i'm going to crash very soon...

...coffee never smelled so good...

2007-01-02T19:11:00.000-05:00

Well, this weekend was amazing to say the least... it was long, and I walked through work today pretty much in a daze... I guess three days like that will do that to you; but hey, it was definitely worth it.... and ya, it makes you appreciate coffee

So Saturday afternoon Jeremy, Matt and I met Scott & co. in St Thomas at the FRC church, where we did some fun recreational activities (i.e. putting pink hubcaps on cars among other things, cough)... after which we headed to Luitings for some pool and poker, which was a good time. We then headed over to Scotty's place for supper before meeting Brian at the mall in St Thomas and caused general chaos. We all went from there to hockey in Port Stanley and then headed to Jeremy's house in Mt. Brydges.

On Sunday we went to London FRC in the morning and then St. Thomas at 5, after which we .....

ummm... I'm sick of writing... most of the people who are going to read this know what happened after that anyways... alright well that's it then for now

Cambridge

2006-12-27T22:15:00.000-05:00

Well, I don't have too much time... but yesterday was pretty fun; a good time with friends and good Christian fellowship.. skating in the cambridge mall was definitely a fun experience and the singing at campfire was very rewarding as it usually is... amazing how that works... by praising God He gives us joy...

anyways, these days always provides tons of good memories that will last... good times in the truck brian... they always are... and hey to all those other people i had fun running around cambridge with... looking forward to doing it again this weekend.... in the meantime... my dad has me doing some 12 hour shifts... so ill have to say thats all for now...

...to all a good night

2007

2006-12-21T22:32:00.000-05:00

With all the talk of all the stuff we're gonna be doing next year, I thought I would put some of it down here.

Well, the year always starts good with the conference in st. thomas (well, if i don't sprain my ankle this year), and then its back to school on January 8 (i think). February 9 and 10 we have our conference here in Woodstock, which promises to be tons of fun for anyone who is coming... so come, you can stay at my house... if i want you to...

Then at the end of February and the beginning of March, we have reading week, which equals: Barrie. A whole week with Matt Batt, Scott D., Van Mepp, and Wilpy and myself at Horshoe Valley Resort. If it's anything like the last time, it will be one of the most amazing experiences I will have had. (Scotty watch out for those winecup holders).

At the beginning of May, I go back to work at Volvo in Goderich, and get to spend another summer out on the lake; which means I expect you guys to come up all the time, we'll have so much fun....

Then we have Tamarak, which I am 95% sure I will be able to go to this year, and it's looking to be as good as ever: rumours of amazing speakers (which I guess we've come to expect, but probably take for granted sometimes) and a ton of people who are planning on going.

These are just some of the things to look forward to... well there is that ever-present hope that the leafs will make a spring push for the playoffs and the cup... but thats not always such a sure thing as the other ones, but hey it would make for an even better year.

So if you have another thing that I've missed feel free to talk about it and discuss the above mentioned things... these are just a few highlights... and there are sure to be tons of memories made in between... have a good one folks

Prayer for a lost society

2006-12-19T22:32:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone, I haven't posted in a few days, but i ran across an email that i got a few months ago and thought I'd post it. I thought you'd find it interesting and encouraging.

This Pastor has guts!! Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. It seems prayer still upsets some people. Please read. When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:

"Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask for your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good, ' but that is exactly what we have done. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's posessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of speech and expression. We have ridiculed the time honoured values of our forefathers and called it enlightment. Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Amen!"

The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from India, Africa and Korea. Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any other he has ever aired. With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God."

Woodstock Caroling

2006-12-15T21:26:00.000-05:00

So tonight was the night we decided to go caroling with the young people's in the community around our church. We decided to invite anyone in the congregation who wanted to come along which turned out to be a very good thing since only three members of our young people's decided to show up (well, I have to say, the excuses I heard for them not coming were very good... like having an exam at the time... i guess they had all year to think of excuses). So it could have been kind of a lousy night: it was kind of raining, only 3 young people's, people shutting there doors when we put fliers in their mailboxes (ok , just one), but it wasn't. We had a good turnout from the congregation, and once we decided the community thing wasn't working out so well, we decided to go to a couple of elderly couple's appartment in our church. They can't get out in the winter, and they appreciated it very much. We were out in the community for 45 minutes, and got pretty much no response(which was completely different from last year), we were there for five minutes, and the whole thing was worth it. We decided to sing Ere Zij God for them, and surprisingly got the whole thing right. They had so much emotion in their eyes. I'm not sure if we made their day more than their response made our night. It's things like that that make it worth it to go out there every year... Good night everyone

Leafs Win

2006-12-13T11:21:00.000-05:00

So the Leafs won last night.. thank you Chad Kilger... and Paul Maurice said some not so nice words at the beginning of the second period when they went down 3-1...guess it worked.. and now scotty can like the leafs again

Jeremy has a blog

2006-12-12T22:29:00.000-05:00

ya, since he obviously isnt publishing it around too much... jeremy made a blog... vanmepp.blogspot.com... check it out guys and uh.. u should put it up on your blogs... i dont know, i think he's kind of shy or something...lol sorry jeremy

The Saints are Coming

2006-12-11T20:20:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone. I'm just going to talk about an awesome song: The Saints are Coming by Greenday and U2. The two bands came together for the victims of Hurricane Katrina to sing this song and performed it live when the Superdome reopened in New Orleans. I found the video for it on youtube, thanks to ScottD., and while i was looking noticed a video of the same song by a band called the Skids... I didn't realise that the song was a remake... anyways, i think it's kind of cool that these guys, while i don't necessarily agree with their values would come together to collaborate for the sake of the victims of this natural disaster. I would definitely recommend checking out the video, which i have linked in my kewl links on the right side of this blog, and also checking out the video for the saints are coming by the Skids... thats's all for now...

this ones for the leafs

2006-12-11T10:36:00.000-05:00

...well, the leafs have lost seven in a row now after a better start to the year than most people expected... so this is a call for all you guys to support the boys when they try to come out of it tomorrow night against Tampa Bay... thats what being a real leafs fan is: sticking with them not only when they're winning, but also when they're not doing so well...

GO LEAFS

the five

2006-12-09T23:56:00.000-05:00

ya, so scott got a blog... brian got a blog... we used to make fun of people with blogs.. and here i go.. anyways here's a pic of me and my boys... its actually kind of old now... i think thats december 2004... and brian has much hair... anyways... i finally got this thing up ...

...so it begins