The Best of 2008!

2008, What a year! I didn't realize, until I started to make this list, how political my blogs became as the year progressed. Sorry!

Here is a list of my favorite blogs for 2008 by month;

January -- Yesterday is Gone so Say Goodbye! -- original post date: 1-21-08

February -- Where Will You Choose to Meet God? -- original post date: 2-18-08

March -- 10 Things I Learned From My Son's Science Report -- original post date: 3-8-08

April -- God, Beth Moore and My Wife -- original post date: 4-30-08

May -- Why Do We Run From What We Are So Desperately Longing For? -- original post date: 5-20-08

June -- The Movie of My Life -- original post date: 6-26-08

July -- How Healthy Marriages Are Important to a Community -- original post date: 7-9-08

August -- My Ghostly Encounter -- original post date: 8-14-08

September -- Where Were You On This Date? -- original post date: 9-11-08

October -- Romans 13: 1--7 (Submission to the Authorities) -- original post date: 10-23-08

November -- We Are Sparta! (My 300th Blog) -- original post date: 11-23-08

December -- Talk About Some Big Hair -- original post date: 12-8-2008

Trying to Sleep Late & Caleb's New Blog

During any weekday, my children are fairly easy to wake up! They will only complain a little when the 6:00 a.m. wake up call comes from Jamie or me. The biggest complaint about waking up is usually from me. I would like to sleep to at least 7:00 or until the sun comes up anyway.

So when Saturday rolls around, I usually try to sleep a little later, thus allowing the kids and Jamie, a little more sleep time; however, for some very strange reason my children cannot sleep late on a Saturday. This morning my daughter came into our room saying she woke up and couldn't go back to sleep. This was partly the cat's fault..."I tried to sleep late...but the CAT!" I thought it had to be at least 7:00, but when I rolled over the alarm clock said 5:45 a.m.! I told her to go watch television. A few minutes later, I hear my son get up. He never gets up before we make him get up at 6:00 or 6:15 for school. On the one day they can sleep late, they wake up earlier than any other day.

So hear I am, blogging at 6:15 and about to make pancakes for hungry family. Maybe they will let me take about an hour long nap this afternoon.

On a totally different note: My son has a new blog...it is called The Poll Place. He is doing his best to keep it up to date, unlike his last blog. In this blog he ask various questions for us to answer, then publishes the results and his thoughts about them. So encourage him to keep up his blog, and answer a few questions for him, and maybe leave an encouraging comment.

Considering a Name Change

I just found out there is another blog out there (in the blogspot groups) called "Thoughts From Me" .... it has caused me to consider a name change for my blog. It is so hard to be original these days and coming up with a new name may pose a challenge for me. I might just stick to what I have. In the meantime I will roll a few different names around in my head. If you have any suggestions for a possible new name for my blog let me know, OK!

"Stinkin" Bored at Work

Today has been a very boring day at work. It started off just dandy; I was teaching Math (Volume and Area of Irregular Shaped Objects to be specific), when suddenly The Stench hit! It stopped class entirely and ruined a perfectly good work day. The stench was the smell of hot tar and other chemicals that are being used to repair the roof of the building I work in. The smell is apparently sinking down though our air conditioning vents. Pee-Eww! It is awful. Not only does it stink, it was making some of my students and me a little sick. Our eyes were watering, we had to go outside often to try and get some fresh air, and our stomachs were upset. I am still a little ill as of now.

All of the students have gone home now, my co-teacher is off today at the doctor, my supervisor is out of town on a conference, so here I sit with not much to do. I have caught up on all my work load and am even ahead on few things. As you can tell I have been spending some of my free time blogging. I have spent some spare time looking up a bunch of useless trivia about the next few movies coming to my home from Netflix. Being a person who suffers from OCD, I have also started a "list" in my head about stuff that needs to be done, when I get home or this weekend.

Provided I feel better from the upset stomach, nausea, and headache given to me by the Stink, I do plan on going to church tonight. My Wednesday night class has been looking at verses in the Old Testament that indicate Jesus was actually appearing in human form in the OT itself. Cool Huh! These appearances are called, "theophanies."

If your looking for a good book to read...read John Grisham's "The Innocent Man." Not only is the book a good crime novel. It's just so happens to be true. (That was random!)

I guess I'd better get back to work. I'm sure if I look/try hard enough I could find "something" useful to do. Maybe I could practice some grammar? Then maybe my blog would get above a High School reading level. I guess I could make a few copies I will need for Friday, but that's no fun, when I can do it tomorrow. I just hope the Stink is gone.

One more random thought before I go! When I published my posts, it looks like it says Published by Mr. Eat @ whatever time. I never noticed this until Big Doofus pointed it out to me. Maybe I should change the name of my blog to Thoughts from Mr. Eat!?

It's Now a Family Act!

It's official...all of my family members have blogs.

My daughter is the newest addition. Apparently she is ready for new pet. D.O.G. Blog is the name of her new blog. D.O.G. could stand for a couple of things. D.O.G = Daughter of God, and she really, really, really loves dogs.

My son's blog is a little different. CmE Domain is his blog and he has some neat things to read about, especially his version of a recent "Dime Incident", which you should read under November, not September, as his most recent blog states. If you want to read my version of this story, click here.

My wife's blog is called All Rolled Into One. The few fellows who read my blog with some regularity have wives who often read her blogs. I think it was Big Doofus who linked a few of these husband/wife bloggers together.

Now our entire family, except the dog, has their own blog. Feel free to check them out and encourage my young ones to write.