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My Weekend Recap: This weekend was a nice combination of relaxation and stress.  I finished my Systematic Theology earlier in the week and have been able to take a few nights off of reading and studying.  However, we putting on a big concert for Haiti Relief on Saturday night and I have been overly consumed the last week and a half with publicity and ticket sales.  I did enjoy a fun day at Monkey Joes with Kayla and Michele and got a chance to relax and watch a movie with Michele on Saturday (a rarity these days!). 

This upcoming week: This weekend, we are having our 3rd annual Winter Concert at Simpsonwood.  We will have the Micah Watson Band and The Oswald Brothers playing this year.  It’s going to be an awesome event and I can’t wait.  As of now, we have almost 200 people coming and all I can say is that this concert will not fail from lack of publicity.  We decided a couple of weeks ago that all of the money raised would go to support the Haiti Relief effort as a part of our church’s goal to raise $10,000.  If you want information on how you can come to the concert, you can e-mail me (I plan to have a full post announcing the benefits for youth workers later this week).  Also, LOST premieres with their final season on Tuesday night.  I can’t wait to start the final season.  I’m addicted to that show.  Besides the concert and LOST, I’m looking forward to watching the Super Bowl with my family this year (this will be the first Super Bowl since 2001 that I have not been at the church or church function, my wife and I don’t even know who to call to watch the game…we are kind of lame like that!)

Not looking forward to: My next set of classes start on February 8.  I’m really enjoying school and enjoy the material, but I have been going non-stop for a full year and look forward to graduation and being finished with this chapter in my life.  I don’t want to rush the process, but I look forward to the day when I can read for fun again and have time to dedicate to other areas of my life.

Book I’m currently reading: I’m currently not reading anything.  Since I have a few days off before the next class starts, I am giving my brain a rest and focusing on the concert this week.  Although by the end of the week, I will probably have started reading for my next two classes.

Recent Music Addiction: I have been enjoying the new releases from Micah Watson Band’s new CD due out later this month entitled Daughters & Sons. They have some really good stuff (Check it out here).  Our praise band also played a song last week entitled “Lead Me To The Cross” and I have not stopped singing it all week.  It’s a very good song and I love to hear the band play it (Side note: our praise band is opening for the two bands this weekend and their set list is a lot of songs they rock on!  I might be as excited about seeing them as I am about seeing the other two bands).

Attitude Right Now: Anxious!  I can’t wait for Saturday night.  It’s going to be awesome and I am really looking forward to it.  (P.S. LOST premieres this Tuesday night…pretty anxious about that premiere also!)

Have a great week!