Lazy sunday

Today is a lazy Sunday which in my opinion is the best kind of Sunday. So far vie managed to do a whole lot of nothing. I made brunch for dalena and I which was tasty and now I sit on a couch next to her watching Lord of The Rings which is a great movie. At this point I should mention that the two towers is my favorite of the trilogy. Great music, epic battle...it's got it all.

I wonder what tolkein thinks of the movies. It'd be nice to know if he pictured Middle Earth looking like that. I have also seen a lot of the same similarities to Christianity that C.S. Lewis' narnia stories have. It is interesting to me how most stories of good versus evil can go back to the original good versus evil story.

I'm typing on an iPad again which I really like but I can't add pictures or anything exciting to my posts which is sad but oh well. I never used to add pics to the old blog but it is nice to do.

Anyway, I'm getting back to being lazy...and the battle for Helm's Deep.

First day

No more pencils, no more books...yeah right.

Today was the first day of school for me again. I say school, it was my first day back since last semester. It's going to be a great semester though. Not only am I getting married, but my classes are going to be really interesting, and I'm doing some things at work to make it even more fun than before. I'm looking forward to the new experiences coming up.

Class today talked about diversity which is always an interesting topic. I'm curious to see how the union of my family and Dalena's family plays out on the wedding day. While I know everyone will mean well, there is a bit of stress coming from two groups of people with their own traditions and ideas about things coming together. It's going to make me a little nervous. this all ties together because my family is a biracial group while Dalena's is not. We'll see how it ends up going. I'm sure everything will be wonderful.

Here's to tomorrow. It's not a class day but it should be a good one anyway. I might actually turn it into a homework day. Who knows? For now, good night.

Working so hard...

It's taken a tremendous amount of work just to be able to blog tonight. For some reason I'm having to write in HTML format instead of letting google do the hard work for me. Ehh well. I'm writing while kayoing in bed so I can't complain too much. Tomorrow I continue my journey through graduate school and try to solve the issues we had this weekend. Hopefully everything is resolved.

I spent today with Dalena. We ran errands and got to set up our things from the bridal shower. Thank you all for your wonderful gifts. Together, the 2 of us hope to make a wonderful home. Yay for that!

I've been very proud of Dalena and I. We've managed to get all our premarital counseling homework done and we've had some amazing conversations about us, being married, kids, and all of that but there is still so much more to go over. I reallyy cannot wait to finally say I do and just be married. One of the other incredible by products of doing a bible study together but also from having our great conversation is that I feel like vie learned more about my own faith within this whole process. I realized how much praying I did after finding Dalena than I did before and I can't attribute that to anything she did. She didn't do anything. I can say however, that meeting "the one" is a wonderful but also a scary experience.

It's a much anticipated event and I can't wait to finally join together with Dalena and start our lives as a married couple. Bring it on!

Running through my head

what happens when I'm awake at 2am

Due to some crazy things happening at work, I'm awake at 2am waiting for 3am to roll around. In any case, on my walk, I started to think about a journal post and here we are.

The day I met Dalena came to my mind and I've actually been thinking a good bit about this moment in my life. It actually is a huge moment that looking back now, I can truly appreciate the significance. Before I go on though, I want to first say that I'm currently reading Eat, Pray, Love. I realize that with the friends I have, this truth is going to draw some serious jokes and that is fine. The story is very good and is something we can all relate to...heart ache. The character in the book is suffering from a tremendous amount of heart ache and while any guy out there can say he doesn't care, the truth is, at some point he did and got burned so bad that he no longer cares. In other words, some woman messed him up good. Anyway, in Eat, Pray, Love, the main character goes on a year of world and self discovery. She eats some amazing food, does some yoga and so far is chilling in India.

The story seems to be pretty good although there is a fair amount of whining. I am not a huge fan of this but I get the purpose behind it. Anyway, besides thinking about this book, I've been thinking about my journey through my faith. I recall the night I met Dalena because it was the night that something woke up and demanded that I pay attention. I prayed a tremendous amount that night and quite often several nights after. That had never happened to me before and it was the biggest reason why I ended up popping the question to a little more than a year later. It's also the reason why I can't wait to begin life with her and raise a family with her.

I don't expect that anyone will read this and I think I just wanted to get it down on "paper" to remember it later on. It's good to remember things and I'm not even sure Dalena knows this story.