Christmas & New Year 2012

Christmas Joy!

I was in Utah for a few days before Christmas and got back into town on the eve of Christmas. Interestingly enough after a 10 hour drive back to Los Angeles, I had enough energy to sing with the choir and attend the Christmas eve service. I wanted to go to church for Christmas. There wasn't any certainty of how long my uncle and his family wanted to stay in Cedar City, Utah. However I really wanted to go skiing in Utah and try out the snow mobiles. Sooo good! I was also a little sick and sad that week, but I'm okay now.

Christmas day was fun! I took my room mate to the airport at 430am. Watched the sun rise from the east and was over joyed that Jesus is born! I was just happy. Reasons only God can explain. There wasn't really anything exciting going on for me for Christmas. I just was greeting everyone a Merry Christmas. I called those whom I really really wanted to talk to and I went to go visit my mom and her family for lunch. It was mellow. I wasn't really expecting any presents. Just to see people happy was wonderful to me. I wrapped, bagged, and ordered most of my beloved presents and most of them were already received. I went home after spending time with my family and the Lakers loosing their season opener. Spent time with Iggy, and napped. That was my Christmas. It was merry! I had joy and peace in my heart.

The week between Christmas and New Years is like heaven week. Worked for two days and then spent the rest of the week enjoying my time with people and friends. I made the most of that week. I think I had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with people everyday that week. Such a good week of just relaxing, eating, and adventuring! I pretty much hung out with students 80% of the time. It's been real. I tried having a plan, but things doesn't usually work out. Its okay. In anything that I do, do it with joy! Yes, Philippians 4.

New Years Eve!

Yes! Party! Fun! Saying toodles to 2011 was about as fun as peeling a tangerine. I love 2011, there's definitely moments of extreme gladness and times of conflicts. It was a learning year. A year of great risk, great results, and great failures. I must say that I've learned a lot from last year. Always learning... It's so good. NYE was spent partying with my best frens! I am very blessed to have frens with the same morals and values. NYE has always been a time of year where I go monkeys. We're changing. I know, I'm changing. I'm getting older. I'm feeling wiser and more mature. I feel like I should be a dad. I am one to about 90 jr highers. lol... I know that's weird, but I feel like I'm 50 or something. It's a good feeling. I still rock the house with some party rockin. 2011 was a gateway from being a young adult, to an adult. It's good. It's all temporary, God's smiling at me. I know He is. :)

2012 will be interesting. Great things are still to come! Greater things are still to be done in this city!! There are no such things as resolutions. There are goals and to-do list for 2012, but life could throw me a coconut and totally can catch me off guard like it did last year. I learned my lesson from that. This world is so interesting and fun. It's not a game, but it can be competitive. Just with work, relationships, and mission. I can't control this world and the people in this world, but I can always adjust and adapt to it. God is with us. There's this fortune cookie that I saw once that says 'men do not fail... they give up trying. I'm the kind of man that doesn't really give up. It's 95% mental. So here it goes... things that would be nice to have accomplished by 2012.

-Read the whole bible again
-Reconnect with my dad
-Bring family to jof
-Talk missions to the missional pastor of jof
-Teach a class at church
-Change careers
-Take steps to start a non profit
-Get rid of my heart problem
-Write a book
-Give up donuts
-To not chew with my mouth open
-Fitness and healthy living
-Take dancing again
-Cook more
- Shop less
-Drive less
- Say "i love you" to my momma
- See my sister finish college
- Surfing again
- Pursue a beautiful woman of God
- Pier to pier
- Alcatraz, maybe
- Less cocky, more humility
- See more kids and adults saved
- Get published in a science journal
- Plant my own garden
- Iggy, learn a new trick
- Encourage more & be positive
- Take steps on build a house project
- Take care of myself more
- Become more open and inviting
-...... more that God has planned for me this year. :)