Sunday, September 24, 2000
10:25 PM, on the computer
Well, I found a copy of that Earthsuit CD I've been wanting. And suddenly it just dawned on me that I need to buy supplies for the youth retreat that's in a week and a half... and I just spend $100 on new trucks and wheels for my skateboard that I'm building. D'oh. Oh yeah for those of you that were just stunned by the last sentence, I've made the decision to start skateboarding again. I used to when I was a kid, with my old friend Matt Moon (man, I haven't thought about him in years...) but stopped for some reason (allergic to road rash I guess). I'd been having the urge lately to start again because I found out that Christ for the Nations has a skateboarding ministry and I thought "hmmmmmmm.....". Later reason set in and I've been trying to curb the urge by watching it on TV and playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater but well... it only made me want to do it more. I realize now that it only added fuel to the fire, but so what? :_
It was difficult picking out what I needed though, because when I was a kid boards were a bit larger and there were different brands. The only one I remembered from back then was Santa Cruz. But the guy at the skate shop was very helpful and told me what I needed and what would be good for an "ex-old schooler starting again." I still remembered a little cause he said I had a good eye... okay well it was my sister but still...
Anywho, life is life. I saw a cartoon strip that really talked to me. It was a Peanuts strip from a few weeks back and it had Snoopy sitting at a table at the pub surrounded by empty mugs, and he said "Root beer and girls are not the answer." I laughed my butt off cause that's exactly what I've been doing lately, chasing the wrong girl and quaffing root beers. I've realized that me dating Leah was just completely something I was not supposed to have done in the first place (God bless her though), because I had been praying that if it was His will for us to separate then let it be clean and let me have peace, and that was exactly what happened. I did feel a little bad for doing something that He didn't want me doing, but hey He's God... He forgives.
I feel like I'm writing someone a letter or something, I almost just wrote "So, how are things?"... fergit it I'm gonna do it anyway?
So how are things?