my apologies for not blogging this past week and a bit! ive been actually doing stuff at work now.. albeit, its not always work (more like yahoo graffiti and text twist) but still nonetheless, ive been keeping busy. lots of weather data to be entered, for like 5 cities. weater data for EVERY HOUR of EVERY DAY for 1 year for 5 cities. pretty crazy eh. it comes out to about 45,000 pieces of info to enter.

good thing about all this work is it gives me time to listen to music. i've d/l almost a gig of mp3s so far :P mooohaha. recent listenings include: bebo norman, shane, derek webb, sandra mccracken, mercy me, ross king, jill phillips, matt wertz, jennifer knapp, eric peters, old caedmons, jars... yup! good stuff.

anyways, enough work talk. whats been new with me? mmm going camping this wknd (leaving right after work) im so tired and kinda half sick still so thats not a good thing, but it should be fun. hopefully we'll get a good chance to fellowship with each other in the presence of God's awesome creation. mmm what else? softball has been relatively relaxed this week... which is good. but i was reading up on some new drills to improve our skills.. so it'll be fun to implement those at the next practise..

anyways i guess i dont have as much to blog about as i thought i did. i really do have a LOT i wanna write, but most of it is pretty long and would require a lot more time than what i can offer right now. but i will leave you with something neat i learned the other day. the christian life so often is thought of a process of learning to sin less. and while its good to do that, to strive to be like jesus, more important than living a life of sinning less is learning to live a life of repenting more. we need to learn to pray not that we'll sin less, but that we can understand how to repent more. why? because we will always inherently have sin in our lives, perhaps even the sin of self-righteousness. the important thing is to recognize our need for Jesus. today, tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after that. and to realize that we need Jesus more each day than the previous day, and we need Jesus just as much now as we did before, or as we'll ever need. so don't live a life trying to compensate for your sins by sinning less or trading 'big' sins for 'little' ones, but rather fall solely on a desperate need and hunger for Jesus, and learn to repent more.