clear the stage

Anything I put before my God is an idol.
Anything I want with all my heart is an idol.
Anything I can't stop thinking of is an idol.
Anything that I give all my love is an idol.

We must not worship something that's not even worth it,
Clear the stage, make some space for the one who deserves it.

take a listen, last song.

8 hours of softball make justin something something...

extremely sore. saturday, twas a good day of softball though! lots of military drills, enough to make ppl nearly black out. haha good times. even a night exhibition game, which i truly love. something about playing under the lights. anyways i think everyone on our team has gotten hurt in some way or another so far, and we havent even had our first game yet. i scraped up my knee, so yesterday went to national to buy some sliding pads. i didnt get those big mizuno ones that are strictly softball/baseball, but i got these smaller ones that are like all-purpose heavy-duty sliding pads, they're so thick its hilarious. i cant even really move in them lol, but they offer so much padding haha..

my wrist is doing better. i dont htink its a sprain at all. joanna thinks its a tendon. who knows. willi has the same injury, and apparently it doesnt make any sense. all we know is that we have special 'pressure points' that if u press we'll start to die lol.. ahh painful. funny though. my left ankle is really weird too, i think i rolled or something on it, but i dont remember. ive been stretching it out at work all day yesterday and today.

anyways heres to a fun season, especially some fun games next weekend! woot woot! getting excited for em. what else? lccf stuff! met up with a few com members, things are slowly under way, yes. time is really flying by this summer, before you know it we're all back at school again erg. make the most of your time.

i've been reading thru the hitchikers guide to the galaxy series, finished up the first one a few days ago. started the second one, the restaurant at the end of the universe, yesterday.. pretty good so far. its actually quite amusing. enjoyable, definitely!

so ive been hearing a lot about batman, is it really that watchable? shar and i do tuesdays together, so i was thinking of whether or not to go watch it tonight, but i dont think we're going to. instead it might be wimbledon or hotel rwanda, who knows! i dunno, i dont think i was ever a HUGE batman fan. def. not my favourite 'hero' by any stretch. okay, this blog has quickly gotten irrelevant (as if it ever was relevant) - stay cool kids, hope you're having a great summer! yes YOU.

I can get used to this kind of 'work'

Yesterday was IBM Presidents Day Golf Tourney, for which I volunteered/was volunteered to help out. SUCH a fun day away from the office. The weather actually held up, we had some light drizzling but it was pretty gorgeous the rest of the day. The course is called Copper Creek, right by king side road and hwy 27. yeah thats okay, i didnt really recognize those streets either lol. its about a 5 minute drive from major mack/400. anyways, i gave myself ample time to get there in the morning, was sposed to show up around 10:30, so I left the house at 10. Perfect timing, got there a few minutes early.

We had a quick debrief, then they told us to grab lunch, oh jeez. all you can eat breakfast/lunch buffet. it was insane. so nice. so much good food. we were all very careful not to itis ourselves though. As we were finishing up, I was the last one at the table cuz I was watching my friends' stuff while she was using the bathroom, and who else but Thurman Thomas comes to sit down at my table. We chatted a bit, he's a pretty funny guy.

So the whole day was supposed to be an event that you could invite clients and customers out, sort of a 2nd quarter closing thank you. There were about 8 of us volunteers who were in charge of looking over a hole at which there was a specific contest. For example, on the first hole Matt Stajan was there signing hats and sticks, and you had a chance to win an autographed jersey. Carlo Colaiacovo was on another hole, as was Thurman Thomas and AJ Eathorne. So some volunteers were in charge of taking care of these athletes singing autographs at their holes, just making sure they had a good time. Others, like myself, were in charge of a hole on our own, with a contest to win prizes (trips, cars, memberships, etc).. Mine was a trip for two across Canada on via rail for a hole in one (par 3), and another shorter trip for the closest to the pin. So really they need us there to witness if anyone actually gets a hole in one, which no one did lol..

At any rate, it was a lot of fun just chatting to different teams as they came by the hole (32 teams of 4 in total).. LOTS of big names, presidents and ceos cfos cios vps of this and that my goodness. it was crazy. obviously none of them will remember my name, but thats okay, it was still a lot of fun. Mostly I'd tell them about the prizes, then tell them how the hole was playing that day, yardage, wind, etc. pretty fun. after each group left id repair divots, which a groundscrew guy asked if id done before cuz i 'looked like a natural' (WOW ME!). so if business fails theres a second option right there. golf course maintenance. haha.. of course there was free everything so every time the beer girls came around they'd offer us stuff (we werent sposed to have beer though) but it was a lot of fun.

some hilights out on the green?
- a guy asking me how far the distance was to the pin, I estimated a guess, then he pulled out his little GPS caddie and proved me wrong lol
- another guy taking like 3 mulligans cuz he kept on shanking em
- a guy taking a pee right behind the tee then taking his turn like nothing happened
- vp director at air canada swearing that he recognized me from somewhere, even after my constant denial
- driving golf carts all around the course
- a guy getting mad waiting for the beer girl lol
- lots of GREAT shots. also, lots of HORRIBLE shots :)

after we were all done I met back up with my friend, who was hanging around talking to Carlo and Matt, so I got them to sign a stick for me, also picked up an autogrpahed leafs hat. Carlo's a pretty funny guy, i told him hes the future of the Leafs, but I didnt say anything to Matt lol.. anyways Matt took off, so we were just chatting to Carlo for a bit, it was pretty funny cuz my friends from barrie so she knew ppl that they know, so they got her number and were like yeah lets hang out in barrie or if u come out to toronto. pretty jokes. And then Carlo wanted to get a beer with the two of us, and i was like yeah lets go, but then we weren't allowed to go back into the clubhouse cuz we were just sposed to grab food from the club shack outside instead. so that was too bad, as we had to turn him down.

Anyways, grabbed a hot dog and stella at the club shack, (man it was crazy everything and anything you wanted was free) chatted a bit with the other volunteers before they hit the links to get some holes in before the sun came down. I learned something pretty jokes, you know how in basketball everyone shoots for teams, and if u airball it you arent allowed to play that game? well in golf, if you're a guy and you fail to hit it past the ladies tee, you have to whip it out for the rest of the hole. (lol smo) haha i thought that was pretty funny, cuz one guy didnt know how to play and after that he didnt want to play lol :) anyways i couldnt stick around so i took off for the (seemingly shorter) drive home; all in all a really fun day out. cheers!

untitled blog

this is something new for me, this is one of those blogs where i just type, and i promise i wont use the backspace or delete key. its just gonna.. go. somewhere. thus, im sure that you can expect it to be super-random and quirky, probably with lots of jokes that no one will get and just general all-around weirdness.

i dont know why i feel inclined to blog. maybe just cuz it gives me a chance to get some thoughts and memories down. or maybe cuz ive been too slow with the journal lately, and this just seems more convenient.

so how was everyone's eweekendn?

i had me a good one. fairly good anyways. starting from last time.. erm.. thursday night we had a game against yellow team. and they beat us in the last inning. by 1 run. grr. collapsedd!! oh well. friday we had another game against green team, and we got beat again. another tough game. we played pretty well, but it just didnt turn out.. lost by 4 i believe. tough. friday night went with kena nd jamres to timmys.. well wendys and timmys later. did lineup. lots of fun times. making fun of ppl. among other things. HARHAR. heres to sma mo for not showing up G G. hahaha stop.

so saturday was the big opening day. we met up at crosby for pictures which was fun. and bbq too. after that we headed over to cnetenlal.. err.. centennial park for a game. it was against... silver! and finally, after 3 excruiciciai.. excruct.. excruciating difficult losses, we won our frist game of the season. MAN i cant spell or trype. this is horrible. time to slow it down a bit :) anyways, yes we won 18-5.. lots of stealing.. steal 2nd, third, then home a couple times too. haha good times. we ran wild, literally. good times. heres hoping we'll be ready for thursdays game too. tuesday practice, probably do some defnesive drills with thme. but really, good to get that first win under the belt. YES.

hrmmm what else. after that, went up to tent camping with titus fellowship. it was fun. john summy is a crazy driver, my goodeness. it was fun times though. in your eye silver sunfire! oh well we got up there a bit later, at like 6.. it was okay really really hot and humid, lots of bugs, lots of biting. erg.. it was nice though, pretty relaxing id say, just campfiring, having jubsy and sams uber marshmallows (jeez) and singing some songs. especially the old songs. hey fyi what happened to sing to the king. cmon leaders, lets keep that one in the rotation, thats a gkeeper. yeah im talking to you mo mo. screw tomlin, bring back the sttk..

anyways slept decent i spose, the ground was hard but thats camping for you. got back at around 4ish. fun ride back too. willio spending 30 at sobeys, buying 9L of choc milk, junk fooding it up. my goodness. good times lol.

in all, good weekend. missing some shar in it though, but i'll see her tuesday for moooooooovie! woot woot. any dvd recommendations? apparently wimbledon = suckage? erm. we shall see. tonight, mondays with mui. tuesday, practice with kiddies + movie with shar. wednesday, im helping out at a work golf tourney, which i'll blog later about. thursday, game with kiddies. friday practice maybe, fellowship. theres a week in the life of justin for you

so i guess this random typing blog is just getting long instead of being random. time to random it up with a quick recap:

- what movie are you watching? uhhh... uhmmmmmm... errrrrrr..
- faye is so beautiful.
- dld new lifehouse. GG. G FRIGGIN G. (cant you totally hear me saying that?)
- i havent even checked who won last nights game. i'll do that right after this. i went to bed by 9pm. it was still light out!! crazzzzzzy.
- cookies and cream salad?
- FANTASY ET CCSA IS HERE!!! need like 1 more team. thats it. bri?
- juju, well done. YOU KNOW.
- heres to chfris and his bone crushing catch.
- i got bitten up the wazoo. but its still not as bad as others.
- everytime albert does somethings it s funny cuz i always expect the worst (remember egg toss 05?)
- 'killing' a seagull, then realizing it wasnt dead. rather, stoning seagulls. yeah you heard me. WHAT. deathtrap = goodteims.
- i need to find my badge...
- have you seen my badge?
- okay kids stay in school over out

Mark 4

It's about the Word!! the Word! funny i didnt notice that before. its like a lightbulb just went on in my head. its all about the Word.

an update for the ordinary everyday man

summer is rolling along quite busily but also quite nicely, it seems as if there is something to do around every corner. things are starting to pick up a bit, and its probably important to get into a good routine and do the things that are important and need to be done. so without further ado, an update! of course, brought to you in high definition bullet point form!!!

- little league. ooooh the little league. dr betty cragg will be ready for the tourney this wknd. here's hoping.
- many many book recommendations. time to follow thru on some of them. dont worry, if you've recommended something i'll do my best to get to it. thanks!
- fantasy etccsa.
- work is work is work is work is work is work is work is...
- oh, the weekend (double bullet point indented arrow!!)
--> unionville festival. woot the woot! so much fun, good group of people, good music, good food, good times.
--> pt cruiser is another year older. gg bday little one.
--> softball practice was pretty intense, good times. i was so tired. juju gets hurt, gabe is a machine, seems like a normal practice to me.
--> kickoffbash. teehee :)
--> fireworks back at unionville festival. my goodness. MY GOODNESS. ash IN THE EYE. FLARES ALL AROUND. that was kinda crazy. crazy beautiful (is that a song). so hawt. so very hawt.
--> droppin bombs like they're hot, left and right.
--> return of the sack. (gg song)
--> gentle ben stellar.
--> a whale giving birth.
--> roflcopter.
--> lollerskates.
--> indescribable.
--> randomness goes a long way.
--> alfred's sermon on sunday was so money. my goodness.
--> et church picnic/softball tourney = fun. kar is a hero.

man i feel like im writing a grad farewell for the yearbook. ttul frnz4evr xoxo!