Prayer request

Earlier today Katie sliced open her toe while opening a door at Sears. She's in a lot of pain and has had to have 12 stitches. She will probably have her toe in stitches for a week. although at first it was thought that she had slice into the muscle and maybe into the bone, it turned out to thankfully be just her skin cut through, but it's still severe and she had a good deal of blood loss and won't be able to walk much for a week.

Please be praying for her and pray that she does not have any further troubles such as infections.

The day after

Survivor's Log: Wednesday May 25 2011, 0800


The first day following the event, I look out there and see all the damage the storms have done and I am horrified. The most noticeable thing is how green everything is, it's unnatural for Texas to be green, everyone knows that it's brown this time of year; just another memory of the damage done by this apocalyptic event.


The heat is having its effect on the survivors. The A/C cut out, likely do to extensive damage;our A/C tech seems to be fairly incompetent in getting it running. It's been weeks since I've felt cold air, and now we are facing the hottest days just ahead.


I think it is fair to mention that our current hiding location has held up nicely during the event, but reports are coming in from all over the nation that other places were not so lucky, I sit back to myself and ponder this while we plan on how to move forward; how anyone can move forward.


The tornadoes have skipped our lands, but the straight winds of last night blew through our home and kicked up rain inside. We were fortunate to get the doors closed before the house was flooded. 


No word on Kinderline, my Girlfriend up north. I haven't heard from her in days, and I am starting to lose hope that I will, but I must push forward anyway, and make my best efforts to struggle through these hard times.


Most of the stores have survived the event, which means supplies might be getting scarce over the next few days. People surely will be rushing for supplies as soon as they hit the shelf, the raving paranoids who think that the world is gonna end; if they could just look around they would realize it just did.


The survivors holed up here have constructed a small garden though i look at it and I'm pretty sure it won't supply us with a decent amount of food. 
I must go, I have a dog to take care of, and we all must construct a plan, a plan to rebuild, a plan to move forward after this terrible event.


This is the first log by Adam Brewer following the great storm of May 24th 2011.


ok yeah this was overly dramatic, and while there was a big storm last night, I would nowhere near call it appocolyptic. just so you all are informed, yes a good deal of this is just made up, but there are some truthful elements, the Grass is unusually green for this time of year, Our A/C did cut out, and we do have a small garden, the also was a large storm last night that yes did kick up water into our home, but that was because we had left the doors open to vent. the storm blew up really fast and we wound up closing things before too much damage was done.


Also true that I have not heard From Kindy in like 5 days. I miss her a good deal, and she is going through a rough time to say the least, if you all could be praying for her I would greatly appreciate it.


I believe that is all for now, I'll try to be posting more often, I will keep doing these Music Mondays, and I am working on a secret project right now that might bring back some interest in this blog.

Whoa

This post is kinda a status update, kinda catch up on everything, part insanity, part prayer request.

As you all know I took a month long break from all Social Media, and Tried to focus on real life. I will be the first to tell you: Real Life happened. My Baby Brother was born, and as you all probably know already, is quite healthy. He's an easy going baby that doesn't fuss much. At around the same time we bought a Wii and I like it, I am gonna be exercising using it, so lets hope it works.
Also in all of this I have barely gotten any work done on Theodore's Gate, Sorry about all the delays, but I got hit by A) Real life and B) Writer's block.

I'm soon gonna be getting my driver's Permit (YAY!)
Um,
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right, ok I need to talk about the Prayer request, surely all of you have heard about Japan and the tsunami and Reactor troubles they've had. Kinderline had an Exchange student friend who lives in Japan, and Even Though I don't know Akari, Kinderline knew her and liked her quite a bit, so Please be praying that she made it out ok. I don't know if Kindy's had any contact with her, as I haven't been in contact with Kindy in a few days.

This brings me to prayer request #2, Kindy's family has been house hunting for weeks, and they are about out of time, this is a stressful time for her family for multiple reasons, I can't go into details, but she needs prayer support too, thank you all.

Guilty as charged

I have not been blogging much lately. I know that I told a lot of you that I would do more, but I clearly haven't, so sorry about that.

Starting with the new year we have had a run of what most would call bad luck, I call it unfortunate unlikely intertwining of less than desirable circumstances.

Ok I call it Bad luck, so sue me.

Katie Recently had an emergency root canal, and today is gonna get that tooth filled. We boys are gonna stay home and wish we had our bathroom back.
What happened to our bathroom? it's gone. The Land lord came in and tore it out trying to find a really bad leak and by really bad leak, I mean it was flooding the entire house. Fun all around. The water damage is extensive, but we found it, and we can begin clean up. Just as soon as they get the sink and wall back in place, oh and the shower wall.

Fun.....

on a totally unrelated note. I got to talk to Kindy last night. I love it when she calls. We talked for a couple of hours, but it did get a bit late.

Now on an even more unrelated note, I have arbitrarily decided this is the best villain theme song ever. Not many villains get them, but this one is the best I've heard. If you want to know my reasoning, I could come up with a leangthy explanation, but it would boil down to: "Because I like it."

Updates, You want Updates!?

Well, there's not much to say. I've gotten addicted to Owl City (much to Katie's annoyance), I'm still driven insane by Fireflies though, don't ask.

I've been taking my Driver's Ed, and so far it's going great. I have mostly been writing my book though, for those of you who don't know, the book is called: Theodore's Gate. The story of three children looking for an old man who's been missing for 30 years, and they get lost in other worlds while meeting all kinds of crazy characters.

Well ok I've exhausted pretty much all I had to say. Ummmmm Well How about I rate The animated movie I saw last year? That should go well


Toy Story 3: 9.8/10
The only thing I have against it is the humor involving Ken, other than that this had to of been the greatest kids movie EVER. It's got an ending that will make a grown man cry.

How to Train Your Dragon: 9.3/10
Ok this movie has two knocks against it, Toothless coughing back up fish, and A couple of references to Norse gods. Other than that, this movie was amazing, and the characters were all charming.

Despicable Me: 8.0
This movie was by far the funniest of the year. This slapstick movie was one of the more funny kids movies I have seen since Cloudy with a chance of meatballs. The biggest problem with it is that they having you cheering on the Bad guy, sure he's mostly reformed, but you are not quite sure what side of line he walks on at the end of the movie.

Legends of the Guardians: Owls of Ga'hoole: 7.0
This movie was AMAZING visually. By far one of the greatest visual accomplishments of all time. No world has ever immersed me as much as this one did. That being said, This movie's story fell flat on its face. It had great story telling elements, and many great points, but they also dropped the ball on a couple of important plot points. The shaky plot was saved however by incredibly charming characters, and a stunning world.
Oh, and the name stinks

For those who have not noticed, I fixed the comments so that ANYONE can post. You shall be able to use a Blogger account, Wordpress, Name + Email, or even Anonymous. SO I expect for ALL of you to comment.
(yes that mean you over there in the back corner with the sign saying: "You can't make me!")

Without anything else to say, I shall now ramble on endlessly.

No one EVER seems to put up things properly! They just leave DVDs lying around for me to pick up. Or legos on the floor grrrr. Oh yeah, the Packers are going to the playoffs, and are Facing the Eagles, this is going to be a shootout. I am cheering on the Pack, and hopefully we will finally see a super bowl this year. Well I'm done with my rambling, I got bored.

See ya

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The owls of Ga'hoole

I have never been one to love owls, but this movie was good.

This movie has one element though that surprised me. The Father figure was not merely not treated as lesser, but truly honorable. In the movie there are two main Owls and their courses, the brothers Kludd, and Soren.

Soren is a dreamer, he takes in his father's legends of the great guardians to heart, and wants to be just like them. He listens to his father when they are beginning flight training. He truly respects his father. Throughout his adventures he is known to site what his Father says, and even after he learns that his father's tales are not entirely true, he still holds onto them, knowing the tales were really far more gruesome than his father had said.

Kludd on the other hand could not have had less to do with his father. He never listens to his father during training, instead trying to make it off his own power and pride. He scoffs at his father's tales, and takes nothing from his words. and in the end he betrays his family for power, and seeks the false honor from a treacherous evil ruler of the owl world.

Though their Father shows up little, and has little time in it, it is clear his impact on the family, and what happened to those who listened to him, and those who didn't.

Narnia

Well today is the day we go to go see the movie (unless I am sick again, this post is scheduled, i will post a message if we can't make it.) So I figured I will play some Narnia tunes today.

just a thought

In a moment, and in a year, we are useless. Every motion we make at first seems insignificant. But one small act can spur a larger one. as one could fight with one person, this could lead to a chain of anger until someone physically gets hurt.

But also, someone who merely raises their family right, and teaches them in a Godly manner, they could raise a great leader, a tool for God, or maybe their grandchild could be the influence to someone truly meant for greatness. Even if it is far down the line, it could make a huge change.

And there is a point to this, God calls us to give our entire lives over. To totally and completely worship and follow him. To obey him, and to do all for him. To do this, even if we ourselves do not make a change in this world, could one day have a dramatic effect on many lives in the future.

it's just a thought.

Why we have no Christmas Tree

One would walk into our house and ask us one question:
"Where's the tree?"

This is because we don't really do the Christmas tree. a while back we decided to put the focus more around what Christmas was about, which was Christ's birth, so that he would die for our Salvation. This is why about a decade ago the entire family got together and voted, on whether or not we were going to put our presents around a tree, or a Nativity.

it was unanimous, Nativity won. We had always enjoyed decorating a tree, but everyone liked the nativity idea more, so that year we went out and bought a really nice Nativity, and for once we did not put up a tree.

This worked out quite nicely actually. the Nativity did not take up as much space, so our living room did not feel crowded. (Which happens if you have a small living room) We also had fewer quarrels over setting up a nativity than putting the "good" ornaments on the tree, and most of all, it really DID put more focus on Christ, and not a tree.

We held this vote every year for about five years, when that last year, my parents decided it was set in stone: Five years of unanimously voting for the nativity was getting kind of old, so now it's one of our big Christmas traditions.

Now though, we did not have a huge display, so we went to work putting decorations elsewhere, and it payed off, instead of having one big pretty display, we made the entire house look nice, and fewer people fought STILL because everyone has their own project.

this si one of our traditions, and we love it, what are some of your unique Christmas traditions?

A favorite Christmas Memory

Back in 2004 we moved to Texas. We lost most of our possessions and were pretty much strapped for cash. We made it off of my Dad's severance package for 6 months, but during that time we had a Christmas, and a bunch of siblings who had lost most of their toys in the move. That Christmas was difficult to shop for because of money issues.

It was looking like our bleakest Christmas ever, when My dad actually was able to get us a few more presents, and on Christmas eve, My Grandma came in with two huge boxes of presents for everyone. As a result that Christmas in one day went from looking like our bleakest, to being one of our largest ever. We all gathered around making candies, and cookies.

She had already given us a lot of old lights to use. So, we decorated properly, and we had lots of gifts, and we honestly had one of our best days that Christmas. It was so nice to see my brothers get toys again.

That was just one of my favorite Christmas memories, but I have more, stay tuned.

Tomorrow Kindy will share her thought of the day, and song. So stay tuned.

Katie's Birthday

So far, I have never found a good pickled candy bar. Not that I've found any Pickled candy bars, but hey, who knows?

Actually I'm gonna say that today's Katie Birthday, so Happy birthday sis! may you not be too annoyed by your overly enthusiastic friends!

Feeling a bit tired.

It's been on of those weeks. We rented How to train your dragon on Monday, the same night that my dad's team lost their star QB. All in all that didn't go well. Buddy was nuts because of the "Dragon wizards" and stayed up half the night. This exhausted Katie, and so she was a crank yesterday. I can't really blame her though, she just didn't get enough sleep.

I've started Reading THE END. That being the last book in a series of Unfortunate Events. I might give my opinion when I'm done, or I might just be lazy and not give you anything.
I have done just about everything I can with this blog. Everything else that must be done can only be done by Kindy (Comment and tell her to hurry up! ;-) )
I'm listening to a lot of Weird Al lately. Just cuz.

We watched Despicable Me last night for $.50 a piece. that came out to be $3.50 for the whole crew to go see a movie together. I enjoyed it a whole lot, and it was incredibly cute. The minions were actually not just slapsticky, but also sweet in their own weird way. I love Edith, and she was my favorite girl.
I want my own Boogie Bots.

So I must get going, and get to work. And while I deal with the artificial tornado in the dining room, I suggest you go enjoy your peace.

Boredom

I'm right now listening to some Christmas music while writing a post. I just got out of the shower, and my brothers are playing video games. All in all everything is quiet and dull, so if you are planning on coming down here for a day of excitement and thrill, don't.

To add to the dull tone this day has cast, outside is grey, but not rainy, and my Momma and Katie are both out garage saleing. I injured my ankle the day before yesterday, and it was grinding all day yesterday, but today it is quite a bit better. (To those who have been reading my blog for the past year, but still haven't gotten a clue, I'm accident prone.)
I'm gonna do some house tidying later, Cleaning the bookshelves and under the sink are among my tasks. If I can get the boys to help me organize our bedroom today as well that would be delightful. If that were all not enough I still need to churn out about 2,500 words today. fun fun fun!

For those who have been keeping up with the Nithcur Prophesy, I am back to writing it, and I am at about 17,500 words. I want to reach 20,000 before Kindy gets back, but that goal is looking harder and harder to hit.

That reminds me, Tomorrow is Sunday, so Kindy will be back, YAY! I have so missed her chatting everyday. I have to get some photos of myself today, cuz she's been demanding more from me. I may take the sibs for a walk later and arm Katie with the camera, that is if the lighting ever gets better.

That's all for now. I am still bored, but now I have dumped some of it on you helpless pathetic readers MWAHAHAHAHAHA!
er I mean, thanks for reading.