Understanding the Struggle

Goin' to see Taylor Hicks

It's official. I will check out Taylor Hicks' first stop on his tour in Jacksonville on 2/21!! I'm excited!!

**** for Taylor Hicks' Debut Album

I've spent a day listening to Taylor Hicks self titled debut album and I like it, a lot:-) In the end the music just makes me feel good. Isn't that really what music is supposed to do...make you feel. There are a lot of doubters out there, hating on Taylor, but I will stick by the dude because I liked him from day one and still do today.

My favorite track on the album so far is Places I've Been. A great song.

I recommend going out and grabbing the album...you'll be diggin it too!!!

Lost Finds a New Timeslot

It looks as though Lost is losing a bit of ground with its audience. Typing that was easy because they have somewhat lost me too. While I still enjoy the show, I think the first part of this season was sub-par.

Now the folks at ABC are moving Lost to a new time on Wednesday...10pm. So much for competition with American Idol and Criminal Minds. Hopefully the shows producers won't give up so easily too.

Link: IGN: Lost Finds a New Timeslot.

NBA Bringing Back the Leather! Ball that is!

So much for change. It will be announced tomorrow that the NBA will go back to the old leather ball on January 1st.

Why change anything if it isn't broken....

Link: NBA.com: NEWS.

Rocky Balboa...YO ROCK!!!

Is anyone else excited about the newest Rocky?

Link: Rocky Balboa.

Taylor Hicks Debut Album Releases 12/12/06

Last year's American Idol winner Taylor Hicks releases his debut album this Tuesday (12/12/06) and I for one am really excited to see what Taylor and company have put together. I supported and called the Taylor Hicks win from day one...and yes I have witnesses. I really think a huge part of Hick's allure is what he brings in a live performance. He brings passion and that is contagious at least to me.

I will surely buy his debut album! I just hope he can bring that same passion to a recorded CD. I'll write up a mini-review when I've taken a listen of the entire thing.

Peace out!

Link: Taylor Hicks.

No Iverson, but still a little Magic

Allen Iverson has been around the NBA and the Philadelphia 76ers for 11 years now. Of all weeks, he and the 76ers brass would choose this week as the time to move on and go to another team. You see my brother and I had tickets to the 76ers game last night against the Magic. There was no Iverson in the house, yet we went and enjoyed a close Magic win 86-84.

The story of the game came late in the 4th quarter. During timeouts Magic staff will at times run onto the court and shoot T-shirts out of something that looks like a bazooka into the crowd. During a late game timeout that's exactly what happened. They began shooting off a few T-shirts, maybe 8-10 total.

I was sitting there with my brother thinking, they never shoot the shirts around me. While my brother and I sat everyone around us was standing up with their hands to the sky, fingers moving, hands waving attempting to get the attention of the person shooting off the shirts. We're sitting there, seeing nothing but people, no part of the court, when all of a sudden I see a T-shirt hit the ceiling right above us and fall down right in my brother's lap!

After getting high-fives and being told to go buy a lottery ticket, my brother told me that he was just thinking that he could use a new T-shirt. It was so funny!!

I received a call late last night from my brother. He had unrolled the shirt. It was a shirt for a discount mattress center with a big pig on the front:-) That's a memory for sure:-D

Home

"If the Church is alive, it's worth the drive." That was a line I heard from a lady I worked with when I first began going to church. I used that combination of words, the catchy phrase, as my explanation when people would ask why I would drive 45-minutes to go to church when there are churches all around me. The truth is it was the only church I had been to, and I liked it. Simple really.

Life however isn't quite that simple at least we as the instruments in life tend to make it not so simple. So I made church like everything else difficult. I chose to stop going to the church that inspired me to drive there two sometimes three times a week. I told myself a closer church home would be more productive and so I left.

I made a new home and though it wasn't the same, I did enjoy it. I tried to make my own mark...my own decision. I was introduced to the last church by my girlfriend at the time and this church I had chosen myself. I was a man or so I thought. I attended every week for almost two years.

The relationship with the girl ended and six months later my time with my chosen church did too. I was in a funk, doubting everything. I came out of it and began attending another church. Not regularly though. The passion to attend honestly wasn't there anymore. It felt like a routine and it isn't in my nature to do anything just to be doing it. I'm extremely passionate about things that I enjoy. Almost to a fault sometimes. No matter how hard I tried to motivate myself I just couldn't get into it.

A few weeks ago I went back home. For the first time in a long time I'm looking forward to Sunday's and wishing they still had the Wednesday service. A few years ago I thought I was being man by making a decision to be closer to home, when in reality I was just a boy. It takes wisdom and courage to identify and recognize when you have something great. Sometimes you just have to experience other things to truly understand what it is you really have.

This post is really nothing more than me saying that the feeling of home in anything really is one of the greatest feelings you can ever experience. Having found that home so early in the church was a blessing that I had no idea I had been given. Now I will thankfully take that blessing back and enjoy it to its fullest.

I'm not off to live a perfect life, but with each step my goal is to live a better one. My prayer is that if you've found a home in something and drifted away you too will find the path back. Embrace it! There's nothing better than a little home cookin;-)

Making Mii Characters:-)

I've been creating Mii Characters on the Nintendo Wii and having a blast at it. It is freakin hilarious!! So far I've created myself, charissa, mom, dad, brother, angela, charissa's mom and dad, her brother, and her uncle morty. Funny stuff!:-)

The word is that these created characters will appear in games later on as times passes. That will be so cool...I can't wait to see it:-)

That's the update for now....

PS: Charissa has played almost three hours of Zelda thus far. In 2 DAYS!!!!

Zelda for Wii ROCKS!!

So I just spent about an hour playing Zelda on the Wii and I must say my opinion is changing faster than Clark Kent around a criminal. The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess ROCKS! The game play is amazing! I have been converted Nintendo. Go Wii!!!!

Link: Zelda Universe.