New Blogs, New Vision:

Personal Blog:

coffeencoke.com

Developer's / Business Blog:

railsgrammer.com

Hope to see you there, I'm going to be doing a lot more blogging now :)

Well... today is one of my 14 hour days of funwork.  I work from 8 - 4:30 at Customer Direct then I had a business meeting with my Dad on sales and marketting, getting that department really moving and now I have 5 minutes before my meeting with my partner at 8. 

I've added a new favorite quote to my list.  'Jesus wept' (John 11:35).  I've been reading The Voice and it is really opening my eyes and helping me dive into the bible.  I really enjoy cross referencing with actual 'translations'.  I never fully studied or was revealed to the absolute love that God has for us.  I never read that verse and fully understood why Jesus wept and how that it was all never meant to be this way.  Opened my eyes to a whole new outlook of the word.

gotta go :)

mls

I’ve been getting vibes both external and internal telling me to PICK UP THAT BLOG AND BLOG. And I’m happy to come back and start journaling again.

This is a shorter entry cause I gotta jet in a few, but just wanted to commence the blog’ness.

I went to my first Second Saturday today and enjoyed it immensely. Second Saturday is an event put on through my church, Windsor Crossing, that takes place every second Saturday of the month from 815 – 2ish. We go to u-city and help improve the city by fixing up houses, cleaning up the area, making time for conversation with those in need and reaching out to the community. I have not done much volunteering at any church so this was a big step for me. I’ve always considered myself an active church member, but I suppose that was limited to going to groups and meeting people and hanging out. I feel I’m making a transformation where the world doesn’t revolve around me, where my life is an instrument, and I am not the dictator anymore! I feel that God is moving the pieces into place and positioning me and I’m super excited to see what happens and what we can do.

Peace out

What is Advent Conspiracy?

Well, you could do a couple things to feed this curiosity i've forced you to thirst for...

a. Click here to watch an amazing video (and as a design enthusiest i think it's an absolutely amazing video).

b. Read (me? i prefer the video because it rocks, and also you can get to more info once on the site with the video.

The concept behind Advent Conspiracy Is:

Worship Fully
Spend Less
Give More
Love All

c. Chat it up with me. And of course if you don't feel like reading (understandable) and you can't watch for the video for some unknown reason (not-understandable :)) If you don't have my chat info you best get it.

d. All of the above.

This hit me hard.

just the other day i said to myself 'it's time to renew my wardrobe', then I continued, 'why stop there, why not renew my living room, get some black 20" rims on your car, get 2 24" monitors...', i went on for quite a while, i even wrote a list! Then i got hit by this message once again, and not just once recently but almost constanly, like God is saying trying to show me how so many people in this world, including myself' are so selfish. There was this Advent Conspiracy, then one of my friend blogged about selfishness not too long ago and I looked at the list I wrote earlier and was overwhealmed with how blessed my life has been.

Then pops the question, what am I doing with the blessings being given to me?

It's amazing to me how powerful sound is in our lives.

The other day I was working and I heard a song from a cd I listened to back when i used to walk to and from work downtown chicago everyday.  The memories that came back were incredible, all you can do is just smile and soak in the details.  Memories that were sparked from a single soundwave.

The details are amazing too, I was drawn back to remembering events that occured, smells that I experienced, how the weather was, down to such detail that it felt like I was reliving the experience.

This has been happening to me a lot lately, specifically listening to music, maybe it's because I pulled out a playlist from a while ago on my computer, or mayb e there's some other reason.

Does this happen to anyone else? I would hope so.  Or more specifically, does anyone have certain cd's that they always pull out in certain seasons? (christmas cd's do not count, I know everyone loves listening to christmas tunes in april)

I can't believe the impact that sound or music has on my life, it's awesome how it brings back all those great memories like a movie.

Been a while!

I am now the president of Envion Studios LLC!

What is Envion Studios you may ask? Well it's a design company specializing in web solutions.

Who's apart of it? Me (president, code monkey), Justin Arendt (vice president, designer), Tyler Hammond (designer), and Alex Walchli (sales dog).

Because of this new venture I've been pretty dang busy. Have had a lot of things going through my mind, lot of things to go over, set up, put in motion and it's the most exciting things i've ever done. It's everything I've wanted to do, I think i've wanted to do this since I was 5 and I looked at my dad and told him some day I am going to own my own semi trucks and have them take all of my stuff around the world and that I was also going to own a skyscraper. This is the begining of it all, and it couldn't be moving any smoother.

If you or anyone you know needs a unique look on the website, we would love to build a website for you/them, just contact me and we'll put things in motion.

If you lead us to a job that follows through we will give you a referal of up to $100!!