TFCLumpy's Xanga

at camp

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:04:16 GMT

sitting here at camp with dsl. man i am roughing it.... lol

I am a father!

Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:19:28 GMT

wow it has been a long time. life is so busy I don't know where to start so i won't I will just tell you about what has just happened in my life. my son James was born Feb 24th @ 10:14 AM. he is home as well as Cassie and everyone is doing great. I really want to have more time to work on this and hopefully I will. i need to just make this part of my morning routine. we'll see
until then, later
Lumpy

thanksgiving trip

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:52:34 GMT

hello all,
I am surprised my the lack of comments on my last post. was it really that boring???
anyways, I have had a very interesting thanksgiving. it all started on Wed. Cassie and I left for her parents house in MN and about 50 miles south og the mn, Iowa border the transmission in our car died. it will cost too much to repair ($2000!) so we decided to consider it dead and hopefully give it to God's Mtn for the derby. but yes that means we are down to my truck which has so many problems that i can not list them all here. I have been using my truck to go back and forth between home and the office (less then a mile round trip) i think i have put gas in it once since i moved to MO! (that is how little i drive it). so we are in desperate need of a new car. (please pray for us).
anyways bc of that we spent the night @ the "cozy Inn motel" in Belmond Iowa. it was a nice little town and the motel was not very cozy (the beds were terrible!). but we managed to make the best of it. Cassie's dad came and got us thurs morning and we had thanks in MN. her mom made a wonderful fesat!! that is when the trip really perked up! wow was the food good! she made a 24 lb turkey!!! and it was so good and juicy! wow i want some leftovers right now jsut thinking about it! anyways, so the trip wasn't a total loss. today (black friday) Cassie, Hannah (her sister) and I all went shopping! yes i know that is crazy but it is tradition (SP) now. if you remeber this time last year i pruposed to cassie, so this day has special meaning to us. anyways i got some cool stuff for really chep (including a lot of dvds). after all the shopping we got some lunch (@ 8 AM!) and went looking @ Barnes and Noble. i use ot hate books but now i can go into a place like htat and spend hours and hours in certain sections. it was fun. then we met cassies parents and went to see happy feet.... DO NOT SEE HAPPY FEET!!!! it was not very good at all. after seeing that i feel guilty for liking fish sticks bc i am taking away all the pinguins food. and if you can't communicate to..whatever, then just dance and everything will be ok. aka dancing is a universial language and it solves all the worlds problems :P . yea.. it was boring and it had a huge agenda. don't see it. it isn't worth the $$$ wait to see it for $1 if you must...
well with that, i am so tired the keybord is a blur so I am off to bed.
please pray for cassie and I we could really use a car (if you want to donate one to my ministry or jsut give us one we would love that). thanks and i hope you had a wonderful thanksgiving!

I am worth $1,557,430 on HumanForSale.com

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:22:24 GMT

wow it has been a month since i posted that?? wow time flies.... ok well let's see. last night was TJAM, and i led this little 5th grader, Jeffery, to Christ. it was really cool. his father died and his mother is now re-married. he has 2 brothers in jail and his sister has a baby, and the father is long gone... so it was good to help him get his life on the right track.
last weekend Cassie and I went to see the movie Stranger then Fiction. it was pretty good. Cassie liked it a lot. it was interesting to see Will Farrel in a serious role. he did a great job @ it too. Dustin Hauffman (SP)was really funny in it too. it is a good date movie. i might see it again @ the cheap theater.

work is going great! I love working here for Midland. i enjoy working on thier website (go look @ it, http://www.midlandministries.org ,). and i love hanging out in the youth center, though the teens don't respect it very well. Wed they were throwing everything they could get thier hands on @ eachother (like the carpet balls, pool balls and cushions). and of course somebody else did it 1st. is it just me or do teens nowadays not have the same respect for other people's property that i did when i was that age (or younger!)? I don't know. thier are a couple of the guys who can get very loud and somewhat violent. one of them is the sorest looser and winner i have ever seen. when he looses he gets ticked and says you were cheating and throws stuff. when he wins he is yelling and shouting, and umm throwing stuff.... but what surprised me the most was Monday night. Mon is usually SQ 632 (our weekly Bible Club). but this week we went to a big youth event @ a local church called Take a Stand 360. during the praise and worship time i was patrolling in the back, and i happened to notice that same group of guys. and they were singing! and praying! and worshiping!! it was amazing. it was a good reminder that what we are doing does matter and when we think we are not reaching them we are! the event went on for 2 more days and those guys were there every night! and they are @ every SQ 632 and our rallies. they are seeking. and it is my job to show them what they are missing and longing for, God. Man I love me job. I could never do anything else. I hope you feel the same way about what you are doing. if not then findout what God wants you to do and DO IT! you will never be as happy as you will be when you are following God's Will for your life. that is all for now.

"save the cheerleader, save the world!"- Heroes (Mon nights on NBC)

so it's been awhile....

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:26:56 GMT

ok so I haven't posted in a long long time. my last real post was about the wedding. well to be honest with you i have been so busy since the wedding that I haven't had time to post really. i appreciate Cassie posting about the cruise. it was a lot of fun and i want to go on another one soon.
ok so i will fill you in on what has happened since the cruise.
when we got back to Ellsworth (which is a $100 taxi ride just in case anyone was wondering). we talked to the guy who owned the apartment we were going to rent. he said that he thought we were going to be moving sooner then we said so he rented it out. so we were moving in a week and had no where to move to! to make a long story short (at least this part of it) we did a lot of praying and calling and finally found a 1 bedroom house that we are living in now. we found it 2 days b4 we moved. it was getting kind of stressful there but we trusted that God would take care of us and he did. once we moved in (2 trips to get everything and return the trailer and such). I hit the ground running with Midland. the 1st weekend was a fall festival for the southside of St Joseph. and it was right in our backyard! LITERALLY! so of course we had to do something. we had the youth center open and sold slushies and nachoes and even had this giant 3.5 story slide out front for part of it! and i was here for almost 36 hours that weekend. (fri and Sat we weren't open on Sun, thank the Lord!).
after that I have been getting settled in here @ Midland. i have been to my 1st staff meeting, where Shane and I got into a knife fight (I won of course), I am JUST KIDDING (sort of). we were just playing around. i had to defend my laptop! lol anyways and Midland hosted an open house for me here @ the Midland Center. they served ice-cream and i gave my testimony and talked about what brought me here. afterwards they prayed for Cassie and I and it was a great day.
I have had my 1st quiz with Midland which went so smoothly, i could have taken a nap a couple of times throughout the day! we have this new software for scoring that works really well! one of the teenagers here wrote the entire thing! (great job Duncan!!!!). this quiz was it's test day and it pasted with flying colors. it was so nice to start @ 1 and to have the quiz be less then a mile from my house. I did get there early (10 AM!) but i still got to sleep in on a quiz day! it was awesome! and we had the stats done by the time i left the church so i got to spend the evening with Cassie, which she liked a lot.
all in all i really like working for Midland. i live about 2 miles away, and they have given me a ton of freedom to do what i feel led to do. let me walk you through my weekly schedule:
Mon- get to the office @ 9 (by choice) and work until 3. then I open the youth center and play video games or carpet ball with the teens that come in until 6:30. well 6:32 to be exact. that is when SQ 632 starts. that is the Southside Youth Outreach Bible Club starts. it is run by Shane and Jon. all i do is help with sound and the power point. it is a great club. it is more like a weekly rally though bc it averaged 60-70 a week! so it is a big ordeal every week. afterwards i run the youth center until everyone goes home.
Tues- sleep in until I want to get up, then i go into the office. work there until 3 when the youth center opens and i play and hangout with the teens until 6.
Weds- get to the office @ 9 and work on computers, website, ECT until 3 again for the youth center until 6 when i get home to a home cooked meal by my wonderful cook of a wife, Cassie!
Thurs- i get here about 9 as well and work until 4 or 5 (no youth center today) and then i go home eat real quick and head to TJAM (Thursday Jesus And Me). it's the 5th and 6th grade Bible Club. wow 5th and 6th graders are funny. anyways i run sound there in my little sound booth and hangout with the teens. it's fun. i go home and watch My name is Earl and of course The Office with Cassie to wrap up the night.
Fri- come in @ 9 and work until whenever and go home. (also some Fri are rallies so i have to go to them, like tomorrow, 10-20, is our powercharge!).
so there you have it. my week. we have a quiz the 1st weekend of the month and a rally the 3rd weekend of the month so the other 2 (or sometimes 3) is mine to spend with Cassie! it is a lot less busy then my schedule @ TFC. so i get to spend a lot more time with Cassie then i would when i was working for them.
so there that is what i have been up to in the past month and a half. now leave a comment!

my cruise preview

Wed, 06 Sep 2006 20:48:45 GMT

ok i went on a cruise but i don't have time to write about it (I am in the process of moving and such) but if you want more info about it you can read Cassie's blog ( www.xanga.com/nerresta ). so go read that!
bye

what i did this past weekend....

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:47:54 GMT

so... what did i do this weekend....well i drove a lot. and spent some time with Sketch and Shannon....... OH! and I GOT MARRIED!!!!!!!!!!! yes it finally happened! and it was wonderful. (if you want the pic version go to my photo blog: tfclumpy.textamerica.com )WOW was i nervious. ok where to start? how about Fri night? no Mon! (last Mon). so my parents got into town last mon and i actually didn't see them until tues. Cassie and i spent the afternoon with them. we all went out to eat @ this Chineese (SP) rest. and it was pretty good. then we went to see the gardens i got married @ and we spent some time in Wayzata, MN and then went back to thier hotel. we just mainly talked and caught up and such. my dad was in a bad mood it seemed, he didn't stop giving me a hard time since the moment I arrived. but it was still good to see my parents. the next day i spent relaxing and surfing the web a little. the Pierce county fair had started that day so they were shooting fireworks that night os my parents met me in Ellsworth and we watched the show. it was really good. Thurs was the day it really sunk in that I was getting married. i met Sketch and Brandon (my bestman and groomsmen) and my dad and we all picked up our tuxs for the wedding. we hungout @ Barnes and Noble @ the Starbucks in it and then went to the food court where we met my mom. we all hungout and chatted for awhile. it was good.
Friday, the day before the ceremony
friday was the rehearsal day. Sketch, being the bestman (and a very good one @ that) picked me up and took me to the rehearsal. when we got thier we were the 1st ones (I am always early) and everyone started showing up slowly. Andrew, Drew and Josh where the last ones there bc they got lost and traveling so far and getting thier tuxs as well. WOW that was a nervious day. we did a couple walk-throughs of the ceremony and we even practiced our vows. cassie isn't going to like me saying this but, she was so nervious that she couldn't stop giggling during her vows. the rehearsal went really well and then we all went to Buco's for the dinner. we chose that place bc it is the exact restaurant that i purposed to Cassie. we even took a tour of the booth and reenacted (SP?) it for everyone. it was a great night and it relieved a lot of the stress i had for the next day. I got home that night @ about 9:30- 10:00 and i didn't get to sleep until 1 Am and i kept waking up and falling back to sleep...
the Wedding day!!!!
the next morning my alarm went off @ 7:00 AM. i slowly opened my eyes... and then sprang up and shouted" I AM GETTING MARRIED TODAY!!!!!!" Sketch came and picked me up again and we got to the gardens @ 9 AM. i didn't have to be there until 10 (when we started taking the pics). everyone got there a little late and we didn't start taking the groomsmen pics until 10:30. we had to leave so that Cassie and her bridesmaids could arrive and get thier pics taken. my guys and my family (including my fashionably late sister) all went to caribou and had coffee, we got a lot of strange looks bc we were all in tuxs. i kept telling them we were going hunting. we got back to the gardens and just waited.... it seemed like forever.... but finally we got up there and my groomsmen and pastor prayed over me and i felt a lot better. we walked in and got up on the platform and i just stood there. i was so nervious. then the ceremony started. the bridesmaids came down the isle and they all looked wonderful. i had never seen Hannah so grownup b4. then the flower girl, my coisin Leah. she did a wonderful job. she was almost as excited about being in the wedding as Cassie! it was very cute. and then she came....Cassie, escorted by her dad. she looked so beautiful! she took my breat away literally. my heart skipped a beat. she got to the end of the isle and the pastor started. after a few words her dad gave her over to me and i excorted her up into the colossium (SP). wow she was beautiful. we held hands the entire time. we exchanged vows (just traditional ones) and gave eachother thier rings. it was a beautiful, perfect service. nothing went wrong! NOTHING! it was all like a dream. i had never been so happy. afterwards we took a lot of pics (posted some of them on my phot blog, i will add the official ones later). and we left for the reception. we cut the cake and no i didn't shove it in her face (well a little on her nose) and we "mingled" and then we sat down for the meal. the food was good (my walleye could havebeen better) and poeple clanged thier glasses and we had to kiss (though i didn't mind it one bit). my sister told me that she would pay me NOT to kiss like that in front of her again! so we did it again.... sorry sis, I am married now ;) . the meal went well and cassie threw her bouque (SP) and Missy caught it. no surprise there. i threw the garter and the 1st time it landed infront of my cousin who is about 8 or so. he didn't want to touch it! lol he didn't want to get married yet. lol so i did it agian and i tried to hit George Fizer but Brandon caught it. yea he is getting married soon anyways so it works out. after all of this Cassie and I went outside to find her parents car covered in shoe polish and giant mettle cans tied to it. lol they used the wrong type of shoe polish so it took a long time for it to come off but it was a lot of fun. we then left and well.... the rest i can't tell you ;) . Cassie moved in on Sun and Mon and it was been a great week. we are getting ready for the honeymoon and the big move to MO. i have a TON of pakcing to do and a lot to get ready. please pray for cassie and I as we get ready for this big move. if you want to keep up with cassie and I in MO email me your address and we will send you our newsletter.
thanks for all the prayers and well wishes! God Bless and thanks for all the fish!
Lumpy.

what i did this past weekend....

Fri, 18 Aug 2006 20:56:07 GMT

I am a computer Geek!

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 03:43:42 GMT

ok again from Josh. this pertains to Drew as well and my parents (well maybe).

The top 25 “you may be a computer geek if…” jokes, like foxworthy's redneck jokes.(in no specific order)

If your favorite anti-virus software is the xp formatting tool...you may be a computer geek.

If you refer to freeware as legally free...you might be a computer geek.

If you download the Fedora release calendar...you may just be a computer geek.

If you had your firewall block an app just because it looked funny...you may be a computer geek.

If you have ever googled yourself...you might just be a computer geek.

If you use gmail as online storage...you may be a computer geek.

If you open your windows in the middle of winter to keep your processor cool...you may just be a computer geek.

If you definition of a supernova has nothing to do with stars...you may be a computer geek.

If you installed windows longhorn alpha over xp...you may be a computer geek.

If your coasters are cds that burned incorrectly...you may be a computer geek.

If the day suprnova shutdown was one of the worst days of your life...then you may a computer geek.

If you collect heatsinks just because you think they look cool...then you might just be a computer geek.

If you ever had you computer boot to an empty partition...you may be a computer geek.

If your favorite anti-virus software is Linux...you may be a computer geek.

If you refer to Microsoft as M$...you may be a computer geek.

If you use digg.com as your homepage...you may be a computer geek.

If you have a virtual drive installed on your computer...you may be a computer geek.

If you use Bit Torrent...you may be a computer geek.

If the day the pirate bay shut down was the second worst day of your life...you may be a computer geek.

If you understand the joke "there are ten types of people in this world those who can read binary and those who have friends"...you may be a computer geek.

If you use open office...you may be a computer geek.

If you get excited for the Defcon convention...you may be a computer geek.

If the letters i.e. make you cringe...you may be a computer geek.

If you are excited for the OLED keyboard...you may be a computer geek.

If you have UV wire sleeves in your custom made computer...you may be a computer geek

my childhood

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:04:00 GMT

ok so Josh sent this to me and i have seen it b4 but i still wanted to post it (I tihnk Drew had it on his Xanga too). but this is my childhood in a nut shell. lol wow life has changed in just a short short time. lol so yea here it is, enjoy!

>Anybody under the age of 15 should not read this, and if you do, you won't
>understand half of it.
>
>Just because you were born in '92 doesn't mean you're a 90's kid.
>
>It's not like you could remember the original Simpsons. I am sorry but
>three conscious years of the nineties just wont cut it.
>
>
>You're a 90's kid if:
>
>You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
>
>You just cant resist finishing this... "Iiiiiiin west philladelphia born
>and raised..."
>
>You remember TGIF on ABC and wouldnt miss it
>
>"Miss Susie had a steam boat, the steam boat had a bell..miss suzie went to
>heaven the steamboat went to hell_o operator please give me number 9 and if
>you disnconnect me i'll kick you from behind the fridgerator, there was a
>piece of glass, miss suzie sat upon it and broke her little ass_k me no
>more questions, please tell me no more lies the boys are in the bathroom
>zipping up their flies, are in the cornfield the bees are in their hives
>.......................... miss suzie and her boyfriend are kissing in the
>D-A-R-K- D-A-R-K D-A-R-K dark dark dar dar da dark"
>
>HAHAHAHAHAH!!!! down down baby down down the roller coster sweet sweet baby
>Ill never let you go..chimie chie cocoa puffs chimmie chimmie rock, chimmie
>chimiie cocoa puffs chimmie chimmie rock.....
>
>You remember when Kurt Cobain, 2Pac, River Phoenix, and Selena died.
>
>
>
>You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!"
>comes from Stephanie from "Full House"
>
>You remember when it was actually worth getting up early
>on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
>
>You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at
>school.
>
>You begged for some GAK, and when you got that they came out with scented
>GAK, and when you got that they came out with funny scented GAK.....
>
>You remember reading "Goosebumps"
>
>You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
>
>You danced to "Wannabe" by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto,
>Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really
>really want.)
>
>You remember the craze, then the banning of slap bracelets and slam
>books.....
>
>You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
>
>You used to listen to the radio all day long just to record "Your FAVORITE
>song of ALL time"....with a tape recorder held up to the radio loL!!
>
>Where in the world is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
>
>Captain Planet.
>
>You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were
>meant to be together. (this was meant for young 80s children)
>
>When playing power rangers with friends you fought over who got to be
>who............and still all ended up being Tommy.
>
>You remember when super nintendo's became popular.
>
>You always wanted to send in a tape to America's Funniest Home Videos...
>but never taped anything funny.
>
>You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3........and tried to pull the
>pranks on "intruders"
>
>"I've fallen and I can't get up"
>
>You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
>
>Two words... Trapper Keeper.
>
>You wore socks over leggings scrunched down
>
>"Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with
>silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back" SHE ASKED
>HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS
>PHANTS PHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE
>he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come
>back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he
>stubbed his toe toe toe and thats the end end end of the elephants show
>show show
>
>You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
>
>Writing M.A.S.H. notes.
>
>You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool
>
>You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The
>Bell"
>
>You played and/or collected "Pogs"
>
>You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
>
>You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
>
>Yikes pencils and erasers were the stuff!
>
>All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank"
>brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)
>
>You remember when the new Beanie Babies and talking Elmo were always sold
>out.
>
>You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the
>corners of your eyes.
>
>You remember a time before the WB.
>
>You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
>
>You know the Macarena by heart.
>
>"Talk to the hand" ... enough said
>
>You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
>
>
>
>When we were younger:
>
>Before the MySpace frenzy...
>
>Before the Internet & text messaging...
>
>Before Sidekicks & iPods...
>
>Before MIKE JONES...
>
>Before PlayStation2 or X-BOX...
>
>...Back when you put off the 5 hours of homework you had every night.
>
>When light up sneakers were cool.
>
>When you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
>
>When gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
>
>When we recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.
>
>When we called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.
>
>When 2Pac and Biggie where alive.
>
>When the Chicago Bulls were the best team ever.
>
>Way back.
>
>Before we realized all this would eventually disappear
>
>Who would have thought you'd miss the 90's so much!!!!!
>
>Wait Wait....let's not forget OLD NICK shows....Alex Mac, My Brother and
>Me, Rocko's Modern Life, the ORIGINAL Rugrats, DOUG!! Cousin Skeeter, Hey
>Arnold, Clarissa Explains it All, The OLD All That, Pete and Pete yeah the
>OLD nick days rules (what on earth people, have we forgotten the oh so glorious
>salute your shorts, hey dude and double dare... oh, and of course You Can't
>Do That On TV - Forever Pensive)