Shower, yeah...

So we had our baby shower Tuesday night and boy was it fun. We had some food, then some cake, then we opened some gifts, and wouldn't you know it they were all baby items what a bummer huh, I was wanting some video games, or an ipod, but no such luck. Well there was a lot of pink, I mean a lot, and we got some little outfits much of it pink. Pictured you see myself doing my best to look like I'm having the time of my life, did it work, do I look like I'm enjoying myself? You know I don't like this new trend of the men having to go to these things, I mean it's baby stuff and I won't find it cute until it's on my baby. Oh well, it wasn't that bad, no seriously I had a nice time and I appreciate everyone's generosity. Now to only get the room ready.

YWAM

So this past weekend I took a group of my students to San Francisco, for an inner city mission trip. There is an organization by the name of YWAM (youth with a mission) who are based in the city and minister mainly in the tenderloin district all year round and they have weekend trips for schools and churches. We did different activities, the first was passing out hot chocolate to street kids and to the homeless Friday night. Our goal was not just to supply a hot drink, but also to make connections, talk to the people and pray for any who wanted. Saturday we went out with a bucket full of cleaning supplies and asked local corner businesses if we could help them clean their shops. In the afternoon we passed out free bottled water with scriptures in union square. It was very interesting to see the difference in peoples reaction, in union square people were less trusting and not really wanting to interact with you even if they took the water, it was the homeless and the outcast who were actually much friendlier. Saturday night we past out hot chocolate again just in a rougher part of town were people were smoking crack and doing other drugs right in front of you. We talked with a few people and prayed for a couple also as they shared their stories with us. The experience was a great one it opened my eyes not just to the needs of people but also to the humanity and feelings of people who I would normally try not to make eye contact with for fear of my safety or fear of being asked for money, the opportunity to talk with them really gave me different perspective. The staff at YWAM is amazing, it's a group of young people dedicating their life to ministering to the city and all their funds must be raise by themselves. Remember however ministry opportunities are all around you, there is always someone who needs a lift, a kind word or even just a smile, so get out there and treat your life as a ministry.

Super marketing

So the super bowl is now over and the game was ok at best, with Seattle could have done a little more, but oh well I was watching for the commercials anyway. The commercials this year up to par with other years and here is my take on the winners and losers of the commercial bowl. Let me start of with the dumbest of the bunch, Burger King, what was that it was cheesy and a waste of money they should have stuck to the ones with the king in great football moments those are definitely better. Worst celeb in a commercial was P. Diddy in the diet Pepsi one, just a dumb ad. Best celeb was Leonard Nemoy in the aleve commercial as a slight trekie I found it pretty cool. Though I do not promote alcohol at all the bud lite commercials were all pretty good the the best beer commercial goes to Michalobe Ultra and the girl getting tackled in the pick up game. Overall the best commercials were the two Ameraquest ads they were both pretty funny and they are the big winners in my eyes those commercials were very memorable. So there is my take on the super day of expensive marketing. By the way congadulations to all the Steelier fans out there enjoy your off-season.