ok, so you know how i said i didn't have time for this? well, that is still true. but i have taken measures to help me read other blogs and although i'm pretty bad about commenting, i at least can think about them from time to time. so hear it is. first, i would like to suggest that everyone and their mother us firefox as their browser. it rocks. secondly, i have started using my new favorite firefox extension called sage. it allows you to list blog feeds and other news sites and will tell you when new content has been added. you can turn on your feed on your blogger dashboard and use something like feedburner to syndicate your RSS feed. if you're a blogger, you can learn how to do this here. anyway, it's pretty cool and saves me time and energy and i'd recommend to the 2 people who read this, that they do the same. you know who you are. once again, i have amazed you.

my current itunes playlist (in random order, of course):

coldplay - kingdom come
david gray - alibi
derek webb - nobody love me
edmunds crown - higher than me
jimmy eat world - 23
mutemath - ok
snow patrol - how to be dead
u2 - the three sunrises
taylor sorensen - what love is
rosie thomas - wedding day
audioslave - doesn't remind me (video)
the postal service - such great heights

you're so impressed... i can tell

just thought i should say that my wife called me out and said something like, "did you post that last one just to post something?" um, yeah... although i really did wonder who wrote something and took it back, bussard. and, if it matters to anyone besides my wife, i was thinking about how rude i have been before and i am working on that....

i have decided that i'm too busy to have a blog. not just too busy to sit down and write, but too busy to think about anything to write about. here's something i'm thinking about --> i'm trying to read a book called "the shaping of things to come" about how the church is miserably failing to reach our neighbors. even though i am very interested in the topic, i am totally bored by their writing.

about the only thing i really have time for is my family and my work. and i don't really have time to do either of those things as well as i need to. at some point, you just have to lower your expectations... we are in the middle of a mess of parenting, debt, relationships, etc. and that's just where God has us right now. but i thank him for that. it surely could be a lot harder.

if i get really pissed off about something, i'll try to remember to write about it. that makes for a much better blog.

I wonder which one of my "friends" wrote something so offensive they felt the need to remove it again...

It made me just think of things I've done or said, regretted, and wished I could take back. I can be a real ass sometimes. And other times I just make a fool out of myself. My brother in law always has good stories about me and like a good friend, he'll always share them.

Anyway, as I consider these moments in my live, it makes me want to be like Earl and run around and try to make it up to people... but what would that really accomplish? The best thing I can do is just not be the ass or the fool in the first place. People that figure this out are much better friends to have. Oh, and do you what usually helps in this process? Not becoming intoxicated.

Whoa... I am just so transparent, aren't I?

ok, so after Jess saw that previous pic, she suggested I publish one that doesn't make our child look like a fat old man. And so I did. The point of that previous post, by the way, was to show you a baby that was only 5 minutes old... but here's one that's 5 days old, too.

5 minutes old... So, let me tell you about one of the most amazing experiences of my life. This photo of our third girl, Nora Grace, was taken at our home. Minutes before I was "catching" her. Jess and I never thought we would have our babies at home. Now, I can't imagine a safer, more peaceful or beautiful place to bring a baby into this world... i need to write more about this, but can't now... i just wanted to introduce you to my newest girl.