Joker-Batman Begins 2

I'm in class and should probably be paying attention......however on the first day of class the professor said that if we wanted to play on our gameboys/whatever, that's fine as long as we don't interrupt anyone. So I thought I'd use this time to get caught up on blogging.....Upon seeing this photo-http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20726 I got a sense of the mood of the next Batman movie. (I tried to put the link in the text but for some reason it wouldn't work-check it out).

"Jack"

A year ago today my mom got to go be with the Lord. It was something that was kind of expected but yet the timing was a little sudden. My mom was a cancer survivor. She was first diagnosed in the winter of 99' (I think) and was clean in '01.....Then in March of 03' she was diagnosed terminal (1 yr. to live) with a reoccurence of cervical cancer.

However, God saw fit to let her live another 3 years which were a tremendous blessing. She was able to be at my wedding and meet my beautiful wife which made me very happy and thankful......part of me wishes that she would have been around to see our first child but we were by no means (and still are not) ready to bring a life in to the world.

Her last three years were good and she tried to enjoy every minute of it. She was on chemotherapy on and off with her body responding well most of the time. She was often tired and would get sick fairly easily. I'd try and tell her to slow down and take care of herself but that often didn't work. She was a go getter. My mom has six brothers who used to call her "Jack" instead of "Jackie" which I thought was fun. She wouldn't ever let us (my brothers and I) call her that but I would try and sneak it in there every now and then. My mom was a good women who loved life. I miss her. Yet at the same time am so happy for her because she no longer has to deal with the challenges of the human body.I look forward to seeing her again....whole and healed.

Froo Froo

This is Froo Froo or Froofie the bunny. He lives in our yard from time to time and is fun to watch. However I'm not sure how fun he'll be when things start growing in our garden and he decides to start munching on them.....It is kind of cool though to have an animal running around your backyard and not be responsible for it. We'll see how I feel about Froo Froo when the garden is growing......

An old love rekindled

We been playing ultimate frisbee regularly once a week for the past 6 months or so. I'm glad that we've been able to as it's something that I didn't get the chance to do much after leaving Multnomah. What's cooler is that we're starting a summer league this year and there's a rumor that the Portland Ultimate league is trying to get a tournament here in Longview....halfway between PDX and Seattle. That would be ridiculous.

Weekly happenin's

So it's been a busy week.....last weekend we had a garage sale at my mother in law's house. It went really well and is only my second time of being directly involved in one. Kind of an interesting deal and there even seems to be a sort of sub-culture/community that exists among people who frequent garage sales. People were talking toBut one another on a first name basis.....also interesting is that the first customer showed up a 6:55a.m. One hour and five minutes before we were "officially" open. But no complaints as she almost bought $100 worth of stuff.

I started my summer semester this last week. Instead of a 16 week semester this one gets cut in half to 8 weeks. Yo. Things will be interesting and I hope that I can keep my head above the water. Class three nights a week for the first month.

We hung out with our friends Annie and Drew and planted a garden. A first for me that was fun to do. Tonight the last Survivor the season-Go Yauman!

Jed this one's for you

I found a spot :)

Bullets

-So, I started school this last week. Class on Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights. Plus 3 weekend classes. This will be done by the end of June and will certainly be a sprint.

-I didn't get as much done as I was hoping this last week.....or rather I didn't get done what I thought I would get done and got some other good stuff finished.

-Since last week I've been riding my bike to work. The weather hasn't been horrible and so far this week has been awesome. It's been good to combine exercising with getting to work. It only takes me about ten minutes longer than driving and I'm not paying $3.46 a gal. to get there:)

-Last, this photo is from the tulip festival in Mt. Vernon Wa. If you've never gone put it on your to do list sometime in the month of April. Acres and acres of tulips which are always gorgeous. There's also a cool town fair in downtown Mt. Vernon.