CHRISTMAS BELLS ARE RINGING...



Is it just my imagination, or are retailers celebrating Christmas super early this year? I've always thought that the Christmas "celebration" begins the day after Thanksgiving.

I'm sitting in Starbucks, Christmas music playing, Christmas decorations up and can you believe...I'm drinking a PEPPERMINT mocha! THEY GOT ME!!!!!!!!!!

FRIDAY NIGHT



If you live in the Chicago area and aren't doing anything Friday night, I want to invite you to The Gathering happening at my church, Orchard Valley Community Church, in Aurora.

The Gathering is an awesome worship experience where we just take about an hour or a little longer to focus on worship to God. The environment is totally different from a "typical" church service and if you're not a "church" type person, no pressure at all - you can just come and watch a bunch of Christ followers worship their creator.

Anyway - check it out if you can. It's Friday night @ 7pm. If you need directions, etc... shoot me an email at: happyweeble (at sign goes here) hotmail.com.

Hope to see you there...

LIFE IS ONE BIG LESSON

I can't believe how sometimes my trust in God just downright sucks. Yes - SUCKS. Seriously. Today was a great example of how messed up I get if I listen to my emotions more than God. My emotions have such little information to go by, yet it's amazing how powerfully they sometimes dictate my mood, my thinking, etc... And then, when things don't turn out like the picture your (again, limited) mind paints you, you sort of go, "Oh, geez...why did I allow my mind to go there!?!?"

Oh man...I need help.

STRAIGHT PLAN FOR THE GAY MAN

New parody of "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy".

It's only fair, right?

MISSING ANYTHING?

Blame it on the cat.

AFFORDABLE SATELLITE DISH!



If he faces south you can get a lot of cool TV channels. And...it's cheaper than the DishNetwork.

LIVE FROM IRAQ



Kevin Sites is a journalist on the frontlines of Iraq. He runs a blog that features first hand photos and reports from Iraq. Today's entry is especially interesting as he discusses his "typical" day (if there's such a thing in Iraq right now...) at his "headquarters" of Tikrit.

Check his site out here.