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Wow, a whole year without a single blog entry - mainly due to the discovery of twitter and other social networking sites.

I thought I should probably list my new-year resolutions on this blog, so I can kinda be kept accountable.

I always make loads of resoultions, in the hope that I'll actually achieve one or two of them, and there's usually a combinations of serious, spiritual and fun ones. So here goes.

1. Read through the bible in 1 year (again)
2. Drastically improve my lead (and general) guitar playing!!
3. When offered a choice of desserts, always choose the one that comes with custard.
4. Develop a habit of going to bed earlier (and maybe even getting up earlier too)
5. Read more (especially around the area of spirituality and leadership/management)
6. Find new outlets for playing, encouraging & leading worship.
7. Socialise (even) more.
8. Sell (or rent) our other home in Stoke.
9. Try to use the word "one" regularly when referring to myself (just for fun).

And that's it. Simple huh?

Wow, it's really been a long time since I was last here, which means as usual I have so much to report that I'll probably forget half of it by the time I get to the point where I may have considered writing about it, and if that is the case I can only appologise in advance for the small amount of detail that is missing regarding the last month of my life!!

Ok, so it would appear that I damaged my back whilst in the process of moving house (again) this week. Bizarrely, it was actually in the process of lifting Maisey to give her a cuddle, but I'm guessing it was mainly the heavy lifting thing that caused the problem.

And boy, did it hurt!!

Anyway, after my team told me to "GO HOME!!" yesterday, I visited the doctor and she prescribed some codiene (*sp) which is great, and now my back doesn't hurt as much, which is also good. I have to take "2 codiene tablets 4 times daily", and "8 ibruprofen per day" - which is actually the same thing but quite confusing when explained in 2 very different ways.

We also had friends to stay last night which was cool - guests to stay on our 2nd night in the house. Boy, are we socialites?

So I'm back at work now, and pleased with my back relief, but I did just scuff the bumper of my car on a bollard, which is VERY annoying.

Wow, that felt a little random, as far as blogs go, but hey, that's my ramblings I guess.

Ciao.

I just started a community blog (where any realyouth blogger can post stuff).

The idea, simply, is to make it the dullest blog in the world, EVER!!

And I honestly think people will find it hilly-areas!!

So, check it out, and if you regularly find yourself with nothing at all to talk about, let me know - I'll add you as an author and you can tell us all about it.

GENIUS!!

Jon.

Last year, I had the immense privilege of meeting possibly the funniest guy you've never heard of, Bob Entwhistle. Now that's not his real name, but I figure if I tell you his real name, then that'd be like adversiting or something, and that's not allowed (in my head).

 

Anyway, if you have an event that you'd like some fun-clean comedy at, you should track this guy down. He really is a comedy genius. I may even have to start a facebook fan page. who knows!!

So, here I am, sitting drinking a chilled glass of homebrew, thinking about life, and wondering if it would be really bad to start on yet another bar of dairy milk. I decided to write a blog entry with loads of cool thoughts in it, but ended up just writing driville(*sp) about nothing really.

I think I'll give up and try again tomorrow.

Sorry (i really did have quite a lot to talk about, too).

Really short entry!!

It's day 2 in the CYFC offices (for me) and life is good. Enjoying getting to know the new team. Working round the corner from Starbucks is EXCELLENT!!

The office is quite small considering we have 5 people that use it.

Hey, I'll see if I can post a picture of it on here later.

Anyway, keep praying for me (and that we'd sell our house quick smart).

Toodle Pip.

So, you're wondering, why has it been so long since I last posted ANYTHING on this blog?

And the answer, quite simply, is that I've been in the process of changing jobs, moving house, going on holiday, Zak's first trip to the cinema, and performing minor miracles.

Now for more detail...

As many of you will know, my role at North Staffs YFC ended about 3 weeks ago, and I'm now getting ready for the next phase of the journey as I take up my new role as director of YFC in Coventry. It's all really quite exciting, but also quite hectic as we've been busy trying to sell our house in Stoke, which has been a right ordeal, with the estate agent constantly telling us to drop the price and people viewing the house with no intention of actually buying any house in the present climate. Anyway, we've now moved in with our good friend Rob until the house sells and we can get somewhere of our own to live - whether that will be in Rugby or Coventry is still very much undecided.

So, we've been in Rugby for a whole week now, and I've taken a huge step forward in the whole home-brewing department - I made WINE!!

It's quite amazing really, 40 pints of water, a bit of grape juice, sugar and yeast - and bingo, we have wine (after just 7 days). It really is a minor miracle (especially the fact that it tastes ok. Admittedly it is quite potent, and will improve over the next 3 months, but it's already quite palatable (*sp?) - since I bottled it on Wednesday we've (with friends) emptied 5 bottles of the stuff.

Right, There's plenty more to tell you about (including my bargain ebay bottles from Devon), but that'll do to get you all started again. More about the holiday to follow (hopefully including pictures).

Ciao for niao!!

For those of you who are interested, our lives are even more confused now that 2 weeks ago.

I've just this minute finished painting our bedroom (again). After ripping down a small piece of the border around the top of our room several months ago, we decided that we weren't going to re-decorate our room as originally planned. But now with selling up and all, we figured we aught to fix the border back.