Actually Looking Forward to a White Christmas

This Christmas is going to be like none I have had in the past. Despite our move down south just a month and a half ago, on Wednesday we will be packing our bags and heading back up to Harrisburg, PA to be with our families for the Christmas season. I am looking forward to this trip and can actually say I am looking forward to a white Christmas.

This past weekend Harrisburg, PA and other cities in the north-east were covered in a blanket of snow just in time for Christmas. And while I’m sure the residents that had to shovel driveways, clean off their cars, and attend to other snow duties, are tired of the white stuff, I’m looking forward to it and for one reason: I can leave it. I don’t have to deal with it for longer than a week. I get to enjoy the beauty that it brings to the frozen lands of the North and then I get to head back down to the warmer climate of the south. This is the only reason I am looking forward to the cold and the snow

Other than enjoying the good views of a white Christmas we’ll spend most of our time with family and friends, catching up and enjoying each others company over large meals and lots of cookies and hot chocolate. Whatever your plans are for this Holiday season I hope that you enjoy the company of friends and family and end the year on a warm note of love and joy. Merry Christmas!

Finished Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, On to the Next

What a fantastic book! I still cannot believe that I am reading these books (and having a blast doing so), but despite my unbelief I just finished book 4 and have already started book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Loaded up on my Kindle 2 and ready to rock

Google Enables Real Time Spam and More

Google Enables Real Time Spam and More.

I’m a little behind the times on this one (7 days, so shoot me), but she has a great point about Google displaying real time Tweets in their search results. Not as good as many may think…

Blast From the Past – Lindsay and I Driving a Saturn Sky

Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind (Live on The Colbert Report)

YouTube - Alicia Keys – Empire State Of Mind (Live on The Colbert Report).

Flight School Pt. 4 – Application to Embry-Riddle Sent!

Just returned from the post office where I physically dropped my application, and other documents, to Embry-Riddle and other recipients related to the application process, in the mailbox.

I’m still nervous. Still have that uneasy feeling in the pit of my stomach.

But, as Lindsay will be reminding me until I hear back from the admissions office, it is now officially out of my control. All I can do it pray, hope for the best, and pray some more. I hope you’ll join me in doing so…

Wheels up!

Late night observance

Image via CrunchBase

Can’t sleep, which is a bad habit my brain has developed as of late, and I just learned something: Google Chrome is a much better browser for watching shows on Hulu (than Firefox or Safari). Just thought you’d be interested.

Flight School Pt. 3 – Ready to Roll

Tomorrow is the day that I will send out everything required to apply to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and I would be the biggest liar known to man if I told you I wasn’t nervous. I spent a good portion of today making sure I filled in every field, and checked every box on the application; getting my recommendation letter forms ready to send to their recipiants; and the two transcript request forms ready to go out the door. The last item I focused on today was writing an essay that Lindsay and I both felt would help my application stand out from the crowd. I also felt it wouldn’t hurt because I have been out of school for several years.

So yes, nervous but ready to roll! I will be sure to let all of you know when I have finally dropped everything in the mail. In the meantime please continue praying that this works out. If you don’t mind, pray specifically that I am accepted. I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again, I know for sure that I probably cannot get into Embry-Riddle by my own efforts (a.k.a. high school transcript, SAT-I scores, etc) but I know and believe with all of my heart that if God wants me there he will make a way for me to get there. Pray that that happens. This is a desire that has been on my heart for as long as I can remember!

Thank you for all of your kind words and prayers the past several days!

Flight School Pt. 2 – Your Prayers Needed

The prospect of what Lindsay and I actually considered yesterday kept me up until 2am and woke me up earlier than I would have liked this morning.

We started out just planning a few years ahead for our finances. Saving goals, etc. Worked into the mix was flight school at a small local airport for me to get ratings to eventually and hopefully fulfill my dream of being a professional pilot. Lindsay started asking me questions, not really going for anything in particular, but it did. And it got me thinking out loud and telling her about Embry-Riddle. She asked me why I didn’t consider this or tell her about this option before and I was honest with her: “I didn’t want to scare you and pick you up and move you again, this time to Florida”

She said that I should have given her the chance to freak out, which she did not, and consider it, which she did. She let me know that she will support any decision that I make here (she is as ready as I am for me to get my fee firmly planted in a career).

So like I mentioned yesterday I have started the application process, which included me emailing two folks up in Harrisburg, PA who I felt would be good choices for writing candid recommendation letters for me to the school. They both have agreed and they both said practically the same thing to me:

This has always been on your heart…the Lord will bless your faithfulness in answering His call.

But I’m still nervous. My grades in High School and in my single semester at a bible college in 2005 were not anything to write home about. My SAT-I scores, let’s not go there. What I’m hoping, and praying, is that my maturity since graduating from High School will be evident. That somehow the admission staff will see that when I put my mind to something, and when I do something that I love, I excel at it.

I was a typical student back then, I had two things on my mind: girls and having a good time. My grades were ok and obviously good enough to graduate, but again, nothing spectacular.

But I digress. I’m asking for your prayers. I’m asking you to pray alongside of me that God will truly bless my efforts in following my heart’s desire, if this is what he wants me to do.

Tumblr must be going through growing pains. What? Flight school.

Everytime I go to post something on Tumblr is sorta conks out and doesn’t work. So…You know me. I’m back

What’s newsy you ask? Well, I’m seriously considering going back to school. College that is, and not just any college, Flight School. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University to be more precise. And maybe considering is an understatement. I’ve already completed my application, have started FASFA, etc…next step is to visit the Daytona Beach, FL campus. That’s right. Daytona.

Lindsay says: “omg”. I’m with her on that one.

Wish us luck.