Battle of the Sexes!

Alright so this is a response to the Blog Gabs just wrote about Scott commenting on some quirks that girls have. From the girls I know, lots of them make the occasional comments about how hot some guy is or how they want to marry some guy because of this or that. The whole genre of chick flick movies just spur this emotion on. Now, i know that when they say these things they are joking, and i have no problem with joking like that at all! (nor do i have a problem with chick flicks :-P). But i do find it interesting that when a guy makes the same sort of comments about women lots of the time girls somewhat freak out. like gabby said in her blog entry about: her mom was speechless when she saw the picture of Natalie Portman and scott.

i just think its an interesting topic of discussion, and has some interesting sociological significance (woot i am learning about gender identity in my sociology class right now!)

so I think that perhaps maybe scott (and the rest of us guys) are trying to figure out this somewhat double standard that you females have :-P

anyways let me know what you think.

..mjnels..

God is Good!

As some of you may know, i am wanting to go to Bethel University next year. Fortunately i was accepted there, but due to complications i received NO financial aid. My dad has been calling and petitioning for at least some, and this morning i just found out that i am getting $16,000 from FAFSA! what an answer to prayer! That much on top of what bethel has given me makes Bethel affordable! So that is where i probably will be attending next year. Either that or the U of M, but only that if they give me simply amazing financial aid.

Spring Is Here!





These pools that, though in forests, still reflect
The total sky almost without defect,
And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver,
Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone,
And yet not out by any brook or river,
But up by roots to bring dark foliage on.
The trees that have it in their pent-up buds
To darken nature and be summer woods---
Let them think twice before they use their powers
To blot out and drink up and sweep away
These flowery waters and these watery flowers
From snow that melted only yesterday.

~Robert Frost

walking along the beech, i came across what i thought was a red flower.... much to my disappointment it turned out to be a nasty red pepper...

as usual some random thing got me thinking, and i started coming up with all sorts of analogies.

i guess sometimes things just aren't what you think they are....

Michael

check my Deviant art page for some pictures I took while in Florida

here i am in the car driving down to Florida with my family + Leah's friend Charlette. Right now we are sitting in ATL Traffic yo, which is pretty much the worst ever. We are about 8 hours from our destination, and it is 1:30 which means we will get there probably around 10 or 11 because of stops along the way. Unfortunately this means i will have to miss LOST!!!!! plus i already missed the announcement of who got voted off AMERICAN IDOL *crossed fingers that Jason stayed on*. but yeah, The end of the world? i think so.

i guess there's always the internet....

speaking of the internet, having a macbook is alot less fun without access to the web. i was going to do something on garageband and half the loops you have to download! which is difficult without internet. finding wi-fi spots is pretty challenging on the road. Luckily this dilemma will be remedied when we get to my Nana's house.

talk you you all then!

(or at least the 2, maybe 3 people that read this :-P)

~Michael

Global warming



So i am going to do a Pseudo political blog seeing as i haven't ever done one on here that i can remember.



I was driving in the car with the Huerta family and Micaela brought up how Christians deal with the controversial topic of Global warming. It sorta got me thinking and so here is my take on the issue

I think that Christians can't deny that global warming is happening. Polar ice caps are smaller and scientists can measure CO2 levels etc. I think the controversy is the cause of it, and to what extent. For one, this isn't the first time climate issues have been risen. back in the 70s scientists said that an"ice age was imminent". How much of the climate changes naturally? how much is humans?

People like Al Gore and the far left environmental organization ELF (Earth Liberation Front) would like us to believe that its humans fault and some would go so far as to say its the U.S.'s fault mainly. E.L.F., which holds this view, was responsible for the burning of $10 million worth of homes a few weeks ago in Seattle because the homes weren't "green enough". For one the claim that Global warming is mainly the U.S.'s fault is bogus. if you have been to any third world country and stood on the streets you will realize that the United States is remarkably clean in comparison.


As a Christian i personally feel my role in this is to be a good steward to the earth that God has given us, and if there are chances to conserve waste and to be more earth friendly, then to of course take them. who would want to pollute the earth? Also to be open minded and realize that there are other causes for global warming than humans (the sun is burning brighter, current changes, movement of the Milky way etc.) (not saying that humans shouldn't do what they can to prevent it) and be wary of spending millions of dollars of tax money on things that we are not even sure about, and that scientists can't all agree on.

but ultimately we know that we have a Father in heaven who has the whole world in his hands, and we can be rest assured that his plan for his creation is the best one.

Michael

so the other day i was sitting at Dunn Bros with Beau, we were supposed to be doing homework.....like thats gonna happen though!
anyways instead of doing our homework we decided to make me a facebook profile picture on beau's beloved Adobe illustrator instead. After brainstorming and randomly chose to do a sky theme it popped into my head that this was the same theme as my blog!!

"take to the sky"

thats the title of my blog and the picture!

now if only it had some significant meaning....

well im gonna start to write on here more often.

Til next time!

Michael

another semester bgins....

it's October 31st. the end of, what seemed to me, a month that just flew by!
well this is the first Halloween in our new house and it certainly was not a very festive one.... first off our neighborhood isn't necessarily the best place for tick-or-treating. and secondly we did no pumpkin carving. :-( we got as far as buying the pumpkin but never got around to carving it this year.
instead we put it up on a ledge in our living room and let it sit decoratively.

2 days ago we started noticing a puckilicious, nasty smell. We looked and looked for some dead mouse or rotten eggs that must have been left laying around. It wasn't til yesterday, when our whole living room just smelled nasty, that we realized our pumpkin was rotten. sunken. and that its rotten juices had oozed out all over the place. gross.

Halloween

Me and Jeremy Trying to get candy....

i Finished my application for the U of M!!

So Today i was reading my bible, something that i have been trying to make a habbit for some time now, I was reading Galations 5... the chapter about the fruits of the spirit etc... a chapter that i have read again and again my entire life. Its intresting how you can read something a million times and the read it again and find new meaning that you never have seen before. this is sort of what happened for me today. let me type the verse for you just to highlight what stood out to me...

Galations 5:18-25

18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy,
fits of anger,
rivalries,

dissensions,

divisions,

21 envy,

[4] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,

peace,

patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness,

self-control;

against such things there is no law. 24 And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

k so i don't want to sound like a preacher, but this verse really got me thinking.... it says not perform orgies or get drunk and not to take part in the things of the flesh but also in the list is dissentions, divisions, rivalries, fits of anger... how many times have i argued with my parents or gone into fits of anger at sibilings? how many times have there been divisions and dissensions among friends?
the word says that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom... that is powerful language... that is a higher calling.

my prayers recently have reflected that. i have been praying for the fruits of the spirt to be evident in my life... that i would be patient... kind, i have been praying that i would have self-control. and what stuck out to me for the first time was the word peace. that is the one attribute that doesn't really fit... its not a verb... you can't "peace" someone... so i am taking it as an emotion, like joy, or self-control... which i had never really thought before. it is a fruit to be at peace about things... "Michael, don't be anxious about anything!"

keep praying for me as i continue strive to live for christ.

~Michael

a little update on my life...
yesterday, at home inside (it was raining) drinking tea, trying do do homework...ending up on facebook...whats new?

anyways.... i started this yesterday and i'm finishing it up here at school. school. what am i doing here? what do i want to major in? where do i want to go? i finally think i know what i want to pursue... political science.

in the realm of politics there are hundreds of jobs besides running for office and its really something i enjoy... i love people, and i feel like i get along with them pretty well... i have no problem calling people, planning things, trying to organize events etc... and i have already taken 2 political science classes and loved them! i guess it just kind of dawned on me the other day.... so yeah, idealy i would love to eventually move to D.C. and just get a job working for a senator or ambassador or who knows... a president? (:-P yeah right.. it never hurts to dream though...) my cousin is living in D.C. and is in international relations.... see i would LOVE that! anyways i am blabbering now. and i need to go!

cheers!
Michael

last night me and my family got home from closing up our cabin (picture above)on labor day, a lifelong tradition for our family... labor day marks the end of summer for me... the end of days at the lake tubing and skiing, climbing trees and making ropeswings, going for walks by jesse lake, and making bonfires on the beach... however, as fun as all this is, it saddened me this weekend about how little time i spent up at green lake and how my summer mostly consisted of working... but thats life.

also this summer i lost good friends. Trey, Mason and their family moved to virgina which was hard for our entire family. the previous 3-4 months before they left i didn't feel we did as many things together as we used to; mainly because of us moving to Wyoming MN, but also we started hanging out with different circles of people... but what really makes a true good friend is that he still would call me up out of the blue just to see how i was doing.. and i would do the same. and even though he struggled with his faith, he would still ask me about mine, and it was never a burden to talk and pray with him about his faith. we really were like brothers. loosing someone who actually really cares about you is always hard. So this summer has been a learning time for me, where God has shown me that friends move away, and all friends are human and can fail, and as close as you think you are to someone God can take it all away, and show you his glory through it, and can make your relationship with him so much sweeter.

as much as i love summer and its random adventures and lots of free time i am looking forward this fall. I love fall with its cooler weather and regularity. as strange as this might sound to some i'm looking forward to once again having a routine and getting into a regular schedule again.

God bless
Michael

Michael never posts.

So I will.

..

Hey y'all! its been awhile....

just thought i would write something here and update the world on whats going on in my life...

I have a JOB!!

i got a job at subway...yeaaaaahhhh its a good time i guess.

so today i was in Edina chillin with aaron ian and eventually gabby and we were all having a grand 'ol time at noodles & company when my phone started ringing... it was work saying that i was actually supposed to work today....

WHAT?!?!?!?!

yeah i pretty much was freaking out because my schedule at home definatley said i wasn't working... so god bless Gabby who drove me to county road C where my bosses husband picked me up... awkward? yeah pretty much. i was pissed i missed swimming at aarons and the twins game.

so thinking that people would be mad at me, and me thinking i would be mad at people (my mom confirmed that i was not on the schedule that was given to me) i entered work.... now if you know me good enough you know i really can't hold a grudge... especially when the people i am mad at are apologetic... i really wish i could sometimes, but i guess its for the better... anyways as i was saying i got to work and everyone there was not mad but more thrilled that i actually showed up. apparently i was my managers last resort and she had tried calling everyone else to cover the shift before she called me and i was the only one who picked up my phone...

yeah

so i worked... and extra hour later as well... but hey i am getting paid and my manager felt bad so she gave me free sub coupons!!! YAY!!!

Michael

hiiiiiiiiiiiiii

5.

that is the number of thimes i have been pulled over by our wonderful law enforcment officers... wonderful eh?

luckily the reason i was pulled over was apparently they thought i was under the influence... and after taking numerous tests they determined that i was completely coherent. whew. of the hook. it took some convincing though... they were pretty determined to prove i was on marijuana. they got some drug specialist who told me to stick out my tounge. "aaaaaaaaa"
"why is the back of your tounge green??"
"maybe because i was drinking an energy drink??"
"its also a sign of marijuana use...."
"i didn't know that officer..."
"Alright, well look straight ahead"
"ok"
"is there a reason why your eyes are blood shot????"
"i don't know...."
"that is also a sign of drug use...."
"really?"
"yes. keep looking ahead... is there a reason your eyes arn't dialating when i shine the light in them??"
"i don't know..."
"ok wait here."

yep they eventually let me go... after searching my car... they still thought i was a drugie though... pretty much.... so this whole thing probably took at least 40 minutes. yeah. thats all i have to say.

At long last summer is in sight!!

with all the joys and draw backs...

one drawback for me is mowing our lawn... something which i need to do today... if you have seen our lawn you will realize it is massive, and we don't have our riding lawn mower yet. i should get on that....

but this minor inconvienience is quickly forgotten by the fact that there is no school!! i am now done with my classes!! all that is left is 3 daunting finals next week which i havn't started studying for yet....yeah...i should get on that....

then today after that, i guess i am going to the Senior Gala. that should be fun. except i will probaly have to bring my studying with me.... because then on sunday it is mother's day, and then monday is my first final...AAAAA no time to study. freak out. i really shouldn't go and focus on school but...it will work out i guess. :-)

i should get to work.

farewells!!

Michael