I just couldn't resist

I have not had a whole lot of time to blog much lately. But the current news about OJ I just couldn't resist. I admit, this isn't a very good Christian attitude [as Pastor Pete said once to me "What about grace?" when I told him how I cheered when Scott Peterson got his sentence], but this couldn't have happened to a better guy. OJ is a bad, bad person who needs God. Not sure The Purpose Driven Life will do him any good, but it's a start at least. Maybe he'll really kill himself this time and save us from another horrific circus of a trial and the Nevada taxpayers a gazillion dollars.

http://kfi640.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=104668&article=2643529

There She Stands

I have a video up on my myspace site on my profile -- www.myspace.com/weightonhim.

It's one of the only things I can do to pay tribute to the 9/11 victims and their families. This year, 9/11 is on a Tuesday - by the way. I remember clearly what I was doing... mom woke me up from a dead sleep with a phone call asking me to turn the news on to see what was being said about "the small plane that crashed into the World Trade Center". She and my dad were golfing and were not near a TV and, yes, this was literally right when it happened when no one knew anything huge happened. The odd thing is that up till that point I truly had no idea what the twin towers were.

Last October I went to a Michael W Smith concert where he was explaining how the song came about and that Prez Bush asked him to write a song about the tragedy. [I'm thinking, "Dang, you're famous enough, it must be nice to hang with the super, ultra famous people."] Few songs bring tears to my eyes, but this one certainly does. And the video as well... though it has much more meaning since I have actually been to the site.

Forgive me in advanced for wearing red, white and blue on September 11, 2007 - but I think it's only right to do so -- and I challenge anyone reading this to do so as well.

Fun stuff

I had a blast earlier today. I went to the lake with my cousins, aunt and uncle, my sis and her two kids and my parents. It was the first time I had been in public in a bathing suit since surgery. And... the bathing suit was a little big so I still wore a shirt to cover up. But I played in the water with my niece and while she was on a boogie board paddling to the yellow bouys, I swam next to her -- I mean, she is only 5 (but will probably take after her aunt and be a swimmer when she gets older- I think I was 7 when I started swim team). When we got back, my nephew and younger cousin decided to attack me with sand and would get a handful of wet sand from the lake and put it on my shirt... I just let them. So, before I got out of the water, I grabbed a handful of sand from the lake and rubbed it in my nephew's hair like it was shampoo. He was not expecting it, it was hysterical.

Tomorrow I am going to re-learn how to ride a bike. It's only been 2 years, but still, that's long enough. I wonder if the 70 pounds less will make a difference. Never mind that it literally is a little kid's bike and $50 at WalMart. I'll have to get a picture of it and post it, maybe I can borrow mom's camera. :)