Monday, May 31, 2004

did it again

so i changed templates again... i think this reflects my personality a bit better :-)

Days to Spartan: 73

posted by peak @ 22:09 0 comments

graduation. moving out and whatnot

so i guess it finally hit me about how much i'm gonna miss everybody when i leave... or when they leave too. i still find it hard to believe that my brother, paul is graduating from high school and will be headed off to Olivet Nazarene University next year. nutso. it's sad to see people leave, but it seems paul is happy to head off to school - if not for some freedom and to be out on his own for awhile. it'll be awhile before i see him again. it'll be awhile before i really see anybody again.

i hope to see zay tho... i may plan on visiting her in texas a few days before i need to go to tulsa, make it all one trip :-). i dunno if my parents are coming with me when i leave, i'd prefer them not to. they still don't trust me and just once, i'd like to prove to them that i can take care of myself. they have yet to really just let me go and let me find out what i'm really capable of accomplishing. such is life i guess. still, i need to be out on my own - and not just to prove anything to them... but to myself. i need to see where my limits are. and if possible... stretch myself further. i've been way too complacent and bored around here. honestly, i feel like i've lost touch spiritually, mentally, and physically. blah. i am looking forward to leaving, but i'm sad to leave behind past friendships because i know that most of them will just fade away. i know this because it's happened before.

it was sad to have left everyone i knew at taylor. but at this point, i feel that it's sadder to leave behind everyone i know and move away completely. i probably won't be home until i'm done - and even then, i may not come home at all. i feel like those who graduate from college and are heading off into the real world except i still have a lot of schooling to do.

and to top it all off, i really miss zay. blah.

Days to Spartan: 74

posted by peak @ 21:08 1 comments

Sunday, May 30, 2004

aww...




so here's my little baby cousin alena, she can't crawl just yet, but she definitely tries :-)

posted by peak @ 15:11 0 comments

Saturday, May 29, 2004

woo

so i was going through the template code on this thing and i discovered that i couldn't just use the CSS style sheets on dreamweaver... so i had to go through the code and figure out where everything goes. but i figured some stuff out :-D and look... i have other people's blogs and a single link so far :-P just thought i'd share... more later

Days to Spartan: 75

posted by peak @ 22:14 0 comments

Thursday, May 27, 2004

crazy style, yo

i had quite the day today. as most of you know, i'm working at wheaton college as a carpenter. i also ended up having to train new part-timers cuz well... they're new. woo logic. anyway, they're doing all right, one of them is starting to get on my nerves cuz he asks me about the tiniest details. for example, today he asked me whether he should take one of the beds apart when it was clearly busted. imagine getting that kind of a question about 30 times a day :-D he's a cool guy though... not too bright, but cool.

oh and working at the restaurant today was fun. every night seems to get busier though. oh oh, so coolest thing ever. while i was working tonight, this guy came in and was waiting for his wife. he asked me about vegetarian meals and all that, but anyway, so he's waiting for his wife and it's like 5 min to close and i tell him that he has to order if he wants to get any food and he decides to go somewhere else to eat, but we start talking and he offers to interview me for a spot in an internet company, how wild is that? he said he'd call this weekend and set up an appointment. nutsoid huh? amazing what can happen when you just talk to people. the coolest part is, assuming this is legit, is that it's all internet based so i can work the job while i'm in tulsa too :-D God is awesome isn't He? Woot! i'm gonna have to spend some time thanking Him, this will save my butt.

Days to Spartan: 79

posted by peak @ 21:19 0 comments

Wednesday, May 26, 2004

guess what i learned while i was at work?

So for the past week or so, this guy at Go Roma (the restaurant job) named Moises started calling me chibo which apparently means goat. the term came about after he saw me with a goatee (which was really only there cuz i'm too lazy to shave). so anyway, i learned that word and i learned the difference between chibo and chiba (male/female respectively). that didn't go over well so i started calling him masa. he got kinda mad at me for that, but that's what jeff told me to call him after he wouldn't stop. so long story short, i learned 3 words in spanish :-D i also learned no llorase (forgive me for my brutal slaughtering of spanish spellings) which means no worries. i was quite excited to finally be learning something so that i can at least pick out those words.

but anyway, work is going well. i have to train two new carpenters at wheaton college so that's always fun. it's not so bad, one of them seems to be picking things up pretty well. the other one... well, he tries hard... perhaps too hard. he'll get the hang of things eventually. the josiah venture trip is in like three weeks! it's so crazy that i'm going back to the Czech Republic as a leader. i actually have real responsibilities this time around. nutso. seems i may have some use after all :-P

anyway, off to bed... peakpeak needs bedbed. adois.

Days to Spartan: 80

posted by peak @ 20:43 0 comments

Tuesday, May 25, 2004

meh

not much to say these past few days cept... sleep!

Days to Spartan: 81

posted by peak @ 21:22 1 comments

Sunday, May 23, 2004

blog purpose

i don't think i ever clarified why i decided to have a blog. as many of you know, i will not be returning to Taylor nor will i be staying in wheaton for a tenure of at least two years. by choice or by fate, i do not know which because i believe they are interchangeable - to be honest, i credit it to God since i believe Him to be omniscient and omnipotent.

i'll be living in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the Spartan School of Aeronautics starting in August. there, i will complete what needs to be done and move on with my life. i may, or may not, return to wheaton. that is all dependent on what God deems necessary to happen in my life over the course of two years. i can tell you honestly, at this stage in my life, i will not be returning when i leave.

as it so happens, God has taught me a lot about myself this last spring semester as i took it off to work and save money for my time at spartan. i've learned probably quite a bit more than i ever really expected to.

so many of you never really knew me, and for that i apologize. i had always meant to get to know everyone i could. i would have loved to spend time late at night talking, sharing, crying, laughing, comforting, and the list goes on. however insignificant my presence was during my stay at taylor and anywhere else, know that i took to heart your concerns, requests, prayers, and presence.

it is because of this, that i chose to create a blog. i did not want the concerns or worries directed at me and for me, so i chose a somewhat indirect path. this blog is to serve as a gateway to where i am and what i'm up to. this is your window to me, as it were. if you so feel led, please, by all means, leave a comment. if not, that is fine as well.

with that said, pay no attention to the randomness that will frequently occur and the sarcasm. they are as much a part of me as a petal to a flower. so here it is - my blog. your window. my space to vent, talk, cry, share prayers, rejoice, praise answered prayer, and on it goes.

-peak

Days to Spartan: 83

posted by peak @ 00:11 1 comments

Friday, May 21, 2004

stupid me

so i dunno why i'm still up. i hafta be up at 6am to work overtime at wheaton tomorrow. stupid me :-P ah well. as all of you can see, i left a pretty little picture of my brother there. yeah, i took that about 2-3 minutes ago, hehe. hope you all enjoy, i'm gonna go crash now. latah

-peakpeak

Days to Spartan: 84

posted by peak @ 22:55 0 comments

paul, the bro

dis is mah bro :-P



By the way... he's single ;-)

posted by peak @ 22:52 1 comments

Spartan Countdown

so i've decided to keep a daily countdown of days til classes start at Spartan (Aug. 16). i think i've got it right, but correct me if i'm wrong.

Days to Spartan: 85

posted by peak @ 19:44 0 comments

Wednesday, May 19, 2004

blog blog blog

so i only had to work at Wheaton today :o) but i gots a Czech meeting tonight in about an hour so i hafta make this brief. i may blog some more when i get back.

for those of you who don't know, i'll be going to the Czech Republic this year to teach english camps. i've done it before but this is my first year as a teacher! how cool is that? for those of you who know me, how creepy is that? me, a teacher. hehe. anyway, i'm just waiting on paul to get back from whatever he's doing. he told me to pick him up after he left a note saying that he'd be back. i wouldn't mind except for the fact that he assumed that i would pick him up. which kinda bugged me. so i called his friend's cell and told him no and to come home :-D aren't i a great big brother? man, i'm a jerk. i wonder where i get it from.

welp, off i go into the wild blue yonder. latah.

posted by peak @ 15:11 2 comments

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

somethin about somethin

so i guess i realized just how much i'll miss zay cuz i had probably one of the worst days i've ever had yesterday. i don't feel like going into details cuz well, yeah. neeedless to say, i was an angry fellow. but now that i've had a rather nice little sleep, i'm all right. i don't have much to say today cuz well, today just started. but i definitely will be in somewhat of a downer mood just cuz things will just remind me of lindsay and then i'll be like "oh, dang it." hopefully i'll remain cheerful, devotions are today at Wheaton College, which i'm looking forward to. every tuesday and thursday, the physical plant has devotions for the employees, which is cool. we read, sing, talk, whatever and at the end, we share prayer requests and praises and then we pray for each other. it's a nice start to the day. but anyway, off i go. must work to make this cursed thing called money to pay for school down the road. blah.

posted by peak @ 04:52 1 comments

Sunday, May 16, 2004

Ghetto Zay!

I know she's gonna kill me, but i hafta :-D sorry Linds!

posted by peak @ 23:33

new look

oh yeah, so i got this new look... yeah, i used one of the templates but i don't have enough time to just create my own at this point, i might play around with fonts and colors a bit, but this is it for now

posted by peak @ 20:56 0 comments

Blah

so Zay left today... yeah...
i won't get to see her til maybe october. maybe even later than that. which just sucks. but i guess it was meant to be this way. i mean, God wouldn't have paired us if he didn't think that we weren't capable of this. plus, i think he's been preparing us for it. from the fall semester, when we'd spend a lot of time together to the spring, where we would only see each other usually once a month to now. i'm not saying this is going to be easy, though, i wish it were...
needless to say, i'm really going to miss her. i hafta learn how to write letters now cuz we're both gonna be really busy over the summer.

speaking of which, i've decided to quit my fed-ex job. can't handle so many physical jobs at the same time and sleeping for 4 hrs. plus, i don't really like the job. everybody always seems to be in a really bad mood... and nobody talks. kinda scares me. anyway, yeah... i'm calling the manager tonight and i'm gonna tell him i quit.

and, i've decided on a car. sorta. 97-2000 honda civic ex. manual transmission of course ;) i should have some fun just modding it. even if it isn't all that fast.

posted by peak @ 20:02 2 comments

Thursday, May 13, 2004

it's almost friday!

so as i should be sleeping as i'm posting this - yes, i'm dumb. but anyway, tomorrow's friday and i have the weekend off and lindsay's coming! woo! can it get any better than that? well... i suppose it could, but i'll take what i can get :)

so it's really hot in this room... and my dad put my good fan somewhere and i can't find it. boo. oh well. oh, just a note... i do get kinda odd and random when i don't really sleep enough (hence the last few posts). oddly enough, i seem to gain energy as the day progresses. funny how that works - i think it's the food thing. but off to bed i go cuz i need to wake up at 2am. weee....

posted by peak @ 20:40 0 comments

woosh!

so yesterday was my first full day working all 3 jobs. that was fun. i was definitely ready for bed, that's for sure. i got off early again today so i thought i'd drop by and just blog a little. it seems that 4 hrs of sleep seems okay with the exception of my feet. i got a blister on my right pinky toe yesterday and ended up popping it cuz it hurt so bad. yes, nice juicy details.... :-P but anyway, so my feet are going like "no more! no more!" but i'm like "too bad! too bad!" so guess who won the argument? ;-)

so now that i'm working 3 separate jobs, i'm looking for a car now. like, really looking. not looking at a car and saying, "i want that." at first i was thinking about getting a 97-99 mistubishi eclipse but now that i've had time to think about it... i'd much rather prefer something else. i was thinking maybe a subaru impreza wrx, but who knows.

i was also thinking about selling this computer, which would then kinda defeat the purpose of having this blog. :o) but yeah... i was thinking about selling this one and getting a notebook of somekind. but then i wouldn't have a gaming machine... which, of course, is very important... cuz you know... i play a lot of games... while working 3 jobs and sleeping 4 hrs.

well, i'm gonna go rest my feet before i leave for work again. gotta keep them rested just enough or they'll decide they've had enough and just bail on me. latah.

posted by peak @ 04:40 0 comments

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Up and Atom!

woo... just got back from Fed-Ex. one job down for today... and two more to go. yes, i am working three jobs now and yes... i am insane. bet ya didn't think i would find any time to update today huh? hehe. naw, i got off early since today was my first day on the line workin da packages. but anyway, yeah, i work at wheaton college (full time) and go roma italian kitchen during the nights. i usually get to bed around 10 and wake up around 2. sounds fun doesn't it? :-P it's really not that bad. i slept less when i was at taylor, hehe.

and hey, guess what? zay's coming this friday, w00t! although i'm not sure how awake i'll be. we'll see... i seem to have sufficient energy for now. actually, now i'm just hungry... i wonder what food i've got downstairs. well, now that my stomach is calling, i must go - latah

posted by peak @ 04:30 0 comments

Tuesday, May 11, 2004

this is my first post! ah! hehe

well, i'm just testing this out for now. i'll update whenever i have time or when i have adaquate sleep.

posted by peak @ 19:37 1 comments