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Nov 24th, 2005
by Amish_Geek.
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Well, It’s thanksgiving again. I just got home from my Aunt & Uncles house where all my relatives on my Dad’s side of the family met. I had a good time, and was able to catch up with some of my cousins that I hadn’t seen in a while.

I really need to get home more often, or at least call to talk to my parents. I didn’t find out that my Aunt Joanne had her baby until we were driving to St. Cloud today. I also found out that my cousin Bethany got married this fall, but my Uncle Verlin told me that when he called me a week or so ago about his website.

I have a big family, since both of my parents came from families with 6 kids each, that means I have 12 Aunts & Uncles on both sides of my family. That equates to at least 16 cousins on each side of my family. So family get togethers are always quite interesting.

Well, enough for now, time to go help my parents set up the Christmas tree.

I love my Mom

May 7th, 2005
by Amish_Geek.
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Well, I havent posted in a while. I have been extremely busy with meeting with potential clients, to working on a new development that has come to me. But I’ve taken a break from it all, and am spending the weekend at my parents house since tomorrow is Mothers Day.

I love my family, they’re all really cool, and I enjoy spending time with them. I especially like the fact that my parents are still married after 23 years. And I never know what I’m going to find when I come home to visit.

I got home yesterday afternoon, and there was a car in the driveway that I didn’t recognize. Its a 2005 silver Saab 93T. I go inside and ask who’s car that is, and my mom says, “It’s mine”. I asked what happened to her old car (a green 2000 Saab 93t that she bought last fall). Well, she traded it in for the new one because the payments were the same and insurance was only $40 more per year. I just had to shake my head… And my friends wonder where I get my spending habits from!

My mom recently got back from a trip to Brazil where she was visiting my Aunt & Uncle (who are missionaries in Brazil). So she had been gone for the last 2 weeks, so I didn’t see her when I was home last. I enjoy spending time with my mom, I like that I can bounce ideas off of her and talk about business stuff, especially since she has had her own businesses too. She recenly sold her Home Healthcare agency that had over 40 employees, and is now starting a promotional product business with my Dad.

Well, time to go help put the Dock, Boat lift, and Boat into the lake )

How much wood…

Mar 12th, 2005
by Amish_Geek.
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Oi! It’s been a long, yet fruitful, day. At 10, I had a meeting with a client, and helped walk them through using Site Studio to put their site together. Then I headed over to my friend Caleb’s house to help him and his family cut wood. Their house is heated by in floor heating that is heated by a wood burning boiler in their back yard. So Caleb and I were out with the chainsaws cutting up 9-10ft logs into 2-3ft chunks while his dad used the tractor/bucket to carry the wood over to the wood pile.

All in all we spent probably 5hrs out there working, digging logs out of the snow/ice, cutting them, and stacking them. My arms, legs, and back are pretty sore, and I know I’ll definately be feeling it in the morning. But I enjoyed the work, I need to get more excersize, and there is just something about doing physical labor outdoors that makes you feel that much more alive. Plus, I like Caleb’s family, they’re all pretty cool. Plus, they cook really good food. )

After Calebs, I went to Church at 6:30, Pastor Sunny preached out of Ephesians, and we talked about ‘predestination’ and what it really means in Ephesians 1:5. Too many people look too deeply into what Paul meant by ‘predestined’, when all he was trying to say was that God loves us so much, that he chose us, and chose to save us, even before he created us.

Well, after church, a bunch of us went up to Country Lanes to go moonlight bowling. I didn’t bowl, and just watched/hung out with everyone. Now I’m back home, thinking to myself that I need to invest in a Hot Tub to relax my sore muscles.

I guess I’ll just have to do physical labor more often to get myself in shape, so I’m not this sore afterwards…