Midwest Weather Ridiculousness.

Let's take a look at the weather conditions I've seen in the past week since I've been home (6 days to be exact):

• Sub-zero temps
• Snow & ice-covered roads
• Delightfully cold (15-32) temps
• Crazy snow storms where you can hardly see and shouldn't be driving
• Massive FOG -- seriously no visibility. Scary to drive in.
• Unseasonably warm weather (55ish)
• Rainy day that washes away the 1ft+ of snow on the ground and causes major flooding

Gotta love the Midwest! I heard someone say Mother Nature is going through menopause. Hilarious. Apparently she and I have something in common! (Sorry... inside joke-ish with SPFL.)

And current temps in St. Pete are in the mid-70s...

blogging drought

only proves that we all only blog when we are wasting time at work. Go Echo.

P.S. Pope's Christmas address kicks.
P.S.S. Merry Christmas to everyone!

Let the record show

On this day, Milwaukee house has officially switched over to toilet paper that we bought. Up to this day, Saturday, December 20th, 2008, we lived off of toilet paper donated during our move in, some four months ago.

Oh, and we also got 13 inches of snow from Thursday to Friday in a twelve hour time span.

Sweet T-Shirt Man

Tonight one of my lifelong friends hosted his new clothing/T-Shirt line's Launch party. It is called PAL Campaign. Here is the Company's "About Me"

Paz y Amor! Our line of ultra stylish and attractive T-Shirts are made to help promote the ideas of Peace and Love. We derive inspiration from Christianity, Art & Music, Urban Street Culture, Worldwide Sports, and from people like you.

As our brand continues to grow and develop, we plan on adding more wardrobe elements for the peace lover in all of us. Founded in February 2008, our company strongly believes that Peace and Love practiced and spread can have a dramatic and profound effect in our world.

Holding firm to this philosophy, we hope to make this campaign a Universal affair!

If you have a youth group or young adult ministry group and are looking to get some T-Shirts then Check out some of the designs at www.palcampaign.com

I really like the St. Peter shirt.

'Twas the Night before Christmas

What a busy season!

Oh my, I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this, but let me share with you how busy this time of year is at the parish...

Today I strolled into the pastoral center from the gray, foggy weather at about 9:30 am and discovered another gift in my office. I strolled downstairs to fix myself a cup of coffee (which still hasn't kicked in). Then I looked up where some Goodwill stores are around my parish so I can go get my ugly Christmas sweater for a party this weekend. After that I checked my email several times, looked around my office and thought of something to do! I grabbed my *Nsync Christmas CD, popped that in, and started to work on Christmas cards for the parish staff here. I finished one and decided to blog about this eventful morning. How I managed to squeeze this time into the morning I have no idea. I am just so swamped!

Now take some time out of your hard working parish life and enjoy these winter cartoons:

Now it all makes sense...

Ya see, when I was little, I didn't really buy the whole Santa thing after a certain age. I was a pretty scientifically-minded kid and just couldn't understand how this single person could travel around the entire planet over one 24 hour period visiting every home on it. Back then in terms of theory, all we had was S+M=PuT, where S=Santa Claus, M=Magic, and PuT=Presents under Tree. Now, one Dr. Larry Silverberg of North Carolina State University, has finally explained it all. If only they had this when I was growing up...