A life I never got...

Well... as most of you already know, I bought full hockey equipment yesterday...
Why? you may ask... well,
I am playing mens drop-in hockey...

Hockey: The sport of my dreams... The sport I have never been able to play, do to setbacks such as... parents having little money and time to support me... AND... well no others but..hahah.
I have wanted to play ice hockey since i was like 7, and my heart died everytime I asked and my parents said no... well... I dont blame them, I know we are a pastor/missionary family, and i know what that means aswell...
Now that I have a good job, and get AMAZING discounts... My dreams are being fulfilled...
I almost have my N... drivers license.
And I am almost graduated...
Now I dont know if hockey is going to be a big part of my life coming out of high school, but I sure as heck hope soo.

I mean, the feeling yesterday of putting on all my equipment... all MY equipment...
and walking around the house... was wierd but amazing to say the least... Not to mention wierd for the other residents of my household. :P

But hockey is from 11am-12:45, mon-fri.... now i dont need or want to go to 5 days in a row... but
that is just when it happens... I will probly go 2 days a week.
but I am SOOO excited!


But other than that exciting news, school is school and is boring, I learned about psuedostratified squamous epithelial tissue today, If you knew what that was without looking it up, I applaud you, but if you looked it up and said you knew what it was, You're a cheater and you know where you are going.
Work, is.... going... ha, kind of dead in the store but there are lots of changes going on, like bringing all the ski's out! YAY! Ski season... speaking of ski season, I didnt get a pass this year and dont think i will be going even once haha, maybe free day... but my snowboard is too small.

God is soo good, and dont you let anyone tell you otherwise, and dont let anything,(sports,entertainment,your job, your school, your boyfriend/girlfriend) not anything, get in the way of you and God, he holds your life, he can take it, and bless it whenever he feels necessary. He knows what is best for you, and what hurts you... and he doesnt ever try to hurt you, he just teaches you lessons. He is your closest friend, companion, and mentor. Spend time with him, like you do with your friends... I know I dont spend enough time with him, but atleast I acknowledge that I need to spend more time with him, and I am working towards it!
I love my heavenly father with all my heart!


-Josh-

Rockband 2... and..? medieval dinners..?

Well last night I went to Curtis Allens house, (he is currently staying at his grandmas) and the Andrews, Amanda, David, Curtis, and I had a little rockband 2 party, as it just came out two days ago! It is awesome...
Pretty much the same game, except, a little better graphics, and all new songs...
They have a bit of a cooler world tour, because you get to hire new crew bembers and cool stuff like that.
Probly some of my favourite songs... well i havent played too many but, I do enjoy Down with the sickness by disturbed... terrible song but fun to play and listen to. I enjoy the Nirvana song, and some others like Linkin Park.
Yeppers.
BUT! I think i still enjoy the guitar hero interface, hammer ons, and song choices... soo I am excited for Guitar Hero:World Tour

Well work today was pretty insane... I had top sales in the store... and was well over my budget... The time just flew by... Lots of people buying hockey skates... I am soooo excited for this year of hockey... NHL, and playing shinny... And if you havent heard I am planning on doing drop-in adult hockey... it's monday-friday 11-12:45 ...5$ a time... soo I am hoping to go like 2 times a week... SOO EXCITED... which means that in the next one or two paychecks I have to get full equipment... which is soooooo AWESOME.... I have never had my own equipment let alone been in full equipment...sooo. I get it insanely discounted from sport chek soo I am wow... I cant even explain my excitement...


Tonight we had Medieval meal... Lanny has been learning about the middle ages in school and it is tradition in our family to have a dinner that is a traditional to the time period we are studying in history!
Soo i got dressed up when i got home from work, into a medieval outfit... it was for lanny soo I had to be a good sport about it, anyways, lanny was dressed up, and we brought swords to the table... we ate with our hands... had no plates, cutlery, or lighting, only candles. We had pretty cool food... home made noodles, pork chops,fresh green beens, rye bread. No napkins...
It was pretty sweet... Lanny got mad at me when i took butter with my crazy knife, he said that the knife wasnt clean, well then i had to tell him about how nothing was sanitary back in the middle ages haha.
My mom bought Ginger Beer... soo we all got drunk hahaha kidding it's not alcohalic...
It was the grossest thing i have ever tasted... I have had other ginger beers but not as gross as this one.... it was traditional carribean style, and probly the spicyist thing that has ever gone down my throat.... haha.

Well.... I am in a good mood!

Got all my school done today!

Well.... I am out of hear for now!

-Josh-

Is this life?

Well... I have careened my way through another week, only to find I am brutly tired, and exhausted. If this lasts the whole year... it will be awesome. I have things to do, goals to accomplish, and fun to be delve into. This week consists of school, work, and whatever fun things I would like to do along the way. I am going to Focus Club this week, and if I say otherwise, please smack me in the face!... no seriously,... smack me in the face. Like walk up to me, lift your arm, pull it back, and swing it forward into my face!

Well paintball today was AWESOME as usual...
Hockey Friday night was ok, only ok, because i hate the place we play, why? it's too long, the nets are too big, and the gravel is to hard to stick handle on! HA
The party yesterday was Awesome aswell, it's been a while since, we played a massive game of badminton!

We have had 2 dvd players break in our house in the past 2 weeks haha, pretty intense. Soo I have moved my PS2 upstairs for dvd viewing and playing guitar hero!

Well... nothing good to say!
No one cares what I write anyway...

-Josh-

Conniving Knife Saleswomen And Deranged Dental Technicians... and possibly a very intriguing bible story.

Soo to start my day, an unexpected dentist appointment ... hurgle!
I drove down to the north shore, in the van, with Liz and my Father. It was a bit of a groggy trip, wasnt really awake but I managed... didnt hit any old people or careen into any buildings soo all went well. Until I got into the dentists' office. To find, to my dismay... a new dental hygenist...
The one I normally have is on maturnity leave... so, good for her, but I am left with the... shall I say, inexperianced. I cant remember her name, except that if I could I would... well I dont know what I would do, but probly shout it very loudly. She was old, a little wrinkley, and all around a nice person, but we all know dentists change once your in their seat! hehehe
And soo it began,
"So, my name is _____ and I am your new hygenist. All we are going to do today is check your teeth and give them a polish."
"Oh Hey..." I garggled as she had already shoved some instrument into my mouth.
Little did I know that this "check up" would be a roller coaster ride of pain, bad memories, and blood.
She peered through her glasses, and into my mouth... finding not too much to convict me about.
SQUISH! the little poker thingy ( I'd like to find out what those things are called soo when I am Prime Minister, I will enlargen them and use them on dentists across the globe) stabbed into my gums with such ferocity that both my legs kicked upwards, obviously not noticing, she proceeded. Poking and prodding in and out of my gums and teeth, until all i'm left with is a bloody stump of?... not gums but... pretty much just cells....
Now, you've all been to dentists... and we all know how hard it is to talk with the widgets crammed in our mouths. Most of the time they understand us, but some times it is a misunderstanding of such proportion that it would put even George W.Bush to shame. ( he said MISUNDERESTIMATED in one of his speachs once... deffinetly not a word..)
ANYWAYS.
I was frozen. now when dentists torture me, I normally dont complain... like the last dentist post I had on here.
Soo I didnt this time... But honestly, can they not see that my gums are splirting blood all over the place... my body jerkes up and down everytime they poke. And that my face is bursting blood vessels.
And so I endured it.
Then came the chloride... WOW! I normally get the foam stuff that goes into the yucky foam caps, that leave a disgusting texture on your mouth. Well she didnt know... soo she gave me the liquid.. mint. Then came the projectile vommit. then.......
kidding about the vommit... I was done.
Then just to make things better!....
"Let me get you a new tooth brush, new floss, a package of gum, a toy, and a briefcase full of 100 dollar bills, for taking home" She piped up cheerilly.
"Uh... no thanks... I'll just take the floss... I have a good tooth brush at home"
And I scurried out of there as quickly as possible...
"It was nice meeting you! seeya in 6 months" She said with a sadistic grin.
K soo she didn't offer me a briefcase with one hundred dollar bills in it... but it was a terrible dentist experiance, that I am recovering from still.

More adventures with Josh, and his No School Monday... Why? you ask...well... Liz is here and... well i didnt want to do school hahaha.

Soo there I was, entranced, standing in the men's clothes section of Wal-Mart, staring at the crowd of peculiar customers waiting in line at a booth. At the top of that booth, a sign, on that sign the words "FREE" now if you've ever been shopping you know the feeling of seing the red signs that say free... and then some sort of catch in small letters at the bottom of the sign. Well, this sign, in bold letters said "Wait In Line For Your FREE Knife". As you can probly guess, you know who the majority of the crowd will be... moms, grandmas, and... well women, of course the occasional small child that is learning how to read and is male, and sees the word knife and goes "oooooh". But in this case, it was moms and old people haha. All waiting in line, thinking that the knife will just come into there hands and they can run out of the store thinking they've got a deal. Well, then the sales person arrives... not your typical salesperson, a women hehe....... if you didnt laugh... it was a sexest joke that women are incapable of doing anything other than cooking, cleaning, and well you know the other one but this is a G rated blog soo. ANYWAYS.
The salesperson was a woman... dressed in a suit. Now... I thought women knew fashion well, let me tell you something haha. I wont bash women anymore... They are wonderful creations from God and we wouldnt survive without them. Soo she was in a suit, not just any suit but the kind where you look at them and projectile vommit again all over the shnazzy clothes rack you're leaning on. A red, gray, and black striped suit jacket, probly from value village... which means from the 80's... and black dress pants. Her hair style was... well interesting to say the least ( I am not judging by any means:P)
ANYWAYS.
She started her selling that day in Wal-Mart... and did a fine job of it. The knives she sold were... Amazing! I am aloud to say that... because well... knives are cool.
But the packages she sold... 28.99$ for a whack load of knives(28.99 each(3), two pearing knives 20$ each, a fishing knife 40$, two little juicer thingy's 5$ each, and a pair of eversharp, the original amazing scissors 20$) all for 28.99$. almost 200$ in products.
And she sold them left, right, and centre. But I watched her... oooh did I watch her... and like all creepy saleswomen, she had that look in her eye, that look that says "I am holding some sort of information back from you, vital information... but you can TRUST ME!"
Fortunetly my mother was not in that crowd of people... and fortunetly our family is as cheep as missionaries right now... or I would have done some persuasion myself for my mother to buy them. Hehe. BUT! I realized we don't need them, and I can bet that all the people there didnt need them, but just the need to have the best, drove them into the sale. Mwahaha!
Soo I got sick of the drama and left Wal-Mart.

All in all an amazing Monday.
Now enough laughter and exaggeration.

Liz you are my favourite sister... Love you!

Now a bit about my school.
I am doing a bible study book right now, that is focusing on Psalms and Proverbs
And as it is going through Psalms it is telling the background for each Psalm. And almost everyone of them is based off of Samuel... well obviously because that is when David lived... but still, almost all of them actually has to do with a certain section in 1st Samuel.
Check this out...
There is some death, soo be warned... well alot of death actually. I just found this whole thing fascinating... The connections between Samuel and Psalms.


In 1 samuel 21 David meets Ahimelech the priest in Nob... David needs some food... Ahimelech gives him the holy bread because there was nothing else. David then asks for a sword... because he lost his or something. Ahimelech has the sword of Goliath which was being held at this temple.
So Ahimelech gives the sword to David. Saul, who was trying to kill David at the time, had his chief herdsman Doeg at this temple and he overheard all this and thought it was a plot to kill Saul. So Doeg goes to Saul and tells all. But lying, says that Ahimelech helped David in his plot to kill Saul. Soo Saul calls for Ahimelech and his family who were priests at Nob aswell. With alot of anger, Sauls yells at Ahimelech, "why have you helped my enemies try to kill me... blah blah blah
wimper wimper."
Ahimelech " I have not, surely you know that David is more trustworthy than anyone you know"
Saul... more angry shouting... " You shall surely die for this"
So Saul tells his guards to kill Ahimelech and his family... and they refuse.
Then Saul tells Doeg, the chief herdsmen, and traitor, “You do it.” So Doeg the Edomite turned on them and killed them that day, eighty-five priests in all, still wearing their priestly garments. Then he went to Nob, the town of the priests, and killed the priests’ families—men and women, children and babies—and all the cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.
An evil evil man, only doing his evil Kings request.

Which brings us to Psalm 52, Now that we know the background of this Psalm... Go read it in your own bible and then read this story again. Sick! but very interesting.

Soo this brings the conclusion to my blog post, and if this is not worthy of atleast 5 comments... I dont know what is.!

Thank you all!

New School Year

Well... I guess I can say I have officially started school! *WEHOOO! (big cheering from crowd)
After... well not too much planning, I got all my subjects in order and wrote my schedule into my new monthly planner... Thanks Mrs.Coulter and Tim for that. Looks like I have a packed life for a while, but still will find time to blog.
I Bought the last of my school supplies today, some nice pens, a new geometry set/compass, and I acquired my pass for the "fitness" centre for too much money... I payed for 3 months though at the tournament capital centre. Yay!

Finished my school today! Youth kick-off tonight! Awesome.


I guess I havent even really updated you on what i've learned this summer, but like everyone else... Just ask me about it in person.... it's just better that way.


I am going to mow the lawn!


hehe


I dont feel like blogging right now... soo... dont pay much attention to my blog :D I only blogged because Matthew pressured me into it!