My Worship Revolution

Shortly after moving to Santa Cruz, my wife and I went for a hardcore health kick.
South Beach was the diet of choice.
Over a year ago I tried the Blogger Big Butt Weight Loss Challenge.
I started at 179 lbs.
Then we started Tri To Lose.
I started that around 172 lbs.
I finished at around 155lbs.
Then I slacked, not to mention the holidays hit and people brought by all sorts of goodies to the office everyday.
So Rachel and I have talked about going back to the first phase of the South Beach diet.
This morning I weighed myself.
It was depressing.
The outcome?
It hurts to type it.
I don’t know if I can do it.
Fine…
168.4 lbs.

Ouch.

Back to phase one.
This time I’m racing all the way down to 150!
It was nice knowing you Carbs.
Anyone else add some pounds over the holidays?

*Disclaimer: While I will go back to hardcore dieting with some exercise mixed in, I am going here in a month and will be exempt for one week.  You can’t visit the south and not enjoy the food!

These were the signs on the doors downtown yesterday.
Our church lost power.  So we went to have staff meeting at Coffee Cat.
It was packed.
So we went to Starbucks.
Figured I’d go to San Jose to buy Leopard since I couldn’t do much at the office.
Checked Highway Patrol…17 was closed cause of downed power lines from the 60mph winds.
So I went to Coffeec Cat to work.
Not a single seat in the building, plus a line at the counter.
Starbucks…no free wi-fi.
Home…won’t get much done.
Decided to check Lulu’s downtown.
Every business in all of downtown was closed due to power outages.
So I ended up at home and the day was shot.
So we finished watching Alias last night.
Now I gotta work a little longer today.

Back to work!

It’s REALLY wet and REALLY ugly here today.

I guess the Santa Cruz mountains are supposed to get around ten inches of rain this weekend?
Ten inches?
Did we ever get that much in a year in SoCal?
Today there are wind gusts up to 60mph.
Our lights keep flickering on and off.

Guess we’re still being welcomed to NorCal!

I helped her set it up while we were down there on vacation.
Now she can do this:

Good way to see your grandson more often.
Welcome to Macworld Mom.

My Aunt gets hers this week.  Then it’s 3 way chat time.
I think my father in law is next.
My pastor‘s getting one in the next week or two.
Cmon people…everybody’s doing it!

There we go.  Email inbox is finally down to ZERO.  Now the challenge will be to keep it there.  Call it a New Years Resolution or somethin.  It will make me reply to people quicker too.

Of course I do have over 100 emails still saved, but at least they aren’t in my inbox.

And I did have some issues with Entourage though.  There were a couple hundred emails or so that would not delete from my inbox and my trash.  Biggest bummer is there were some emails that I had saved from a long time ago, a few from family that I don’t really have contact with and don’t have email addresses for, and at some point they must have been deleted.  That’s the second time I’ve lost email files using Entourage with our email server.

Anyway, I finally figured out that I could rebuild the database and that got rid of all the emails that were showing up in Entourage that wouldn’t delete from there but were gone from the server.  Thus I’m down to zero.

And some of you thought I couldn’t get it there.  Ha.

As we were driving home last night, we thought we’d throw my iPod on shuffle and just see what came up.  I was reminded of some posts at Phil‘s tumblelog where he would share the last 5 songs played on his iPod.  With no clue what would come, i thought I’d give you a peek into my music by posting the first five to show up on shuffle.  I was hoping nothing too embarrassing would come up (like Rachel’s Amy Grant).  So here’s what we got:

James Taylor – Copperline
Mike Barnett – Beautiful Woman
Planetshakers – How I Love You
Bob Marley – One Love/People Get Ready
Kurt Hunter – You’re The One

All good stuff.  One "Christian" artist.  Two "local" (to O.C.) artists.
You’re turn.
What comes up when you put your iPod (or MP3 player) on shuffle?
First five.  Go.

I am way done with them for a long time!!
8 hours today door to door, with one long 1 hour stop.
It’s good to be home.

Merry Christmas y’all.
I know a little late.
I’ve been out of town, so here’s a few updates of the past week.

That’s Caleb before our Christmas Eve service.
I keep thinking he looks like a little ska baby.
He dressed up more than I did.
His mom dressed him she didn’t dress me.
Christmas Eve service went well.  Confessional to follow…someday.

Christmas morning was just the three of us.  It was relaxing.  It was great.
It was a blast watching Caleb open gifts.
This year he actually cared about the gifts more than the wrapping paper.
The pic above is Caleb opening Uncle Will‘s gift.
Christmas afternoon began the 8 hour drive to San Diego.
Been here the last couple days with family.

Tomorrow (Friday) is Disneyland with the fam.
You passholder friends keep an eye out for us.

Then it’s off to spend the weekend and New Years with Rachel’s fam.
In Big Bear.
Doin me some snowboardin on New Years Eve.

So blogging will continue to be spotty.
Hope you all had a great Christmas!!

So, a while back I introduced you to Robert Pinky (A.K.A. The pink Guy, The Pink Lady) who strolls around downtown Santa Cruz very slowly all day…every day.  In Santa Cruz, everyone’s got a gimmick.  I had said i would try to share more of our cities oddities with you, the faithful readers.  Downtown always promises to be an interesting journey.  And today was no exception.

I think I ran into Pinky’s cousin playing the accordion after church today.  Take a look:

Yup…that’s a real person.  "Sorbet Santa" according to the box.  Just another day in Downtown Santa Cruz.  Best part is…I love where I live!!  Might as well keep life interesting!

This one’s from Dec. 9th.
I know, I’m behind.
Have an even older one waiting to go up one of these days.
Enjoy this one in the meantime.
It was a good Sunday!