So tomorrow me and my friends set sail for Samford (to see STEPH!) and then we head to the northeast on Saturday for the most exhilirating road trip ever imagined.  So just pray for our traveling and stuff would ya?

    Well guys.  A week from today, I will be taking a pretty super sweet roadtrip to stay at my friend Thorne's house in Delaware, and visit the sweet spots around there.  The main goal is just gonna be to have fun, take it easy, relax, and make some memories on camera or off.   I haven't really done anything too interesting lately, but Steph and I will be dating for a year in a week and five days.  Pretty exciting huh?  I thought so too!  Well I added some new pictures that speak for themselves so enjoy!  

Hey guys.  Sorry I haven't posted in a while.  I guess if you wanna see most of my life you'll have to check out my xanga.  I know, I know.  Phusebox is better, but I guess I'd just be faithful to my xanga since it came first.  Please forgive me.  On receiving Linda's comment, I figured that I would add my status on here.  I started taking voice lessons this semester and I told my voice teacher (she's awesome) that I was gonna audition, and she asked me to show her what I had.  Now the pieces that I chose were merely for entry into the music program and not really to impress a whole lot, but she wanted more so she picked a German song for me to sing, and I'm gonna also sing a song that I did in the musical of Guys and Dolls.  She suggested that I wait a until a later date to audition, and since the actual title of music major wouldn't help me after I've signed up for classes already, then I decided to wait.  I'm excited about this song in German, just because it's more challenging and fun to pronounce.  But yeah.  That's what happened.  I'm going to Murfreesboro this weekend to see STEPH, and I am also gonna see the musical that my broham is in called The Boyfriend, and I can't wait.  Everybody should come out this Friday at Oakland at 7:00.  It only costs 5 bucks.  Oh well.  I gotta go.  Leave me some comments!

Well.  It's class time again for me ladies and gentlemen and i am really excited about my classes.  I am taking some music classes and getting into the program slowly but surely.  You guys pray for me because I'm auditioning for the music program on February the 3rd.  It seems to me that participating in a lot of singing groups there at church has given me quite a big head as far as whether or not I truly have musical talent.  I think that I have a lot of work to do and that makes me sorta nervous about these auditions.  One thing that I don't get though.  Isn't the purpose of the music program to make you better at singing?  Why do you need to audition if you know you need to improve?  I guess they're looking for people who "look"  like they need to improve.  I dunno.  I hope that you understand what I mean.

Yeah.  So I've been doing well so far.  How is everyone else?  My grandparents have been happily married for 56 years and that is amazing.  I can't wait to have a great marriage like that.  I realize that there will be bumps and things but with God's help and with the help of the Holy Spirit, I know that I will have a great marriage.  So enough of that mushy stuff.  I seem to be good at spending money and I'm just about ready to get a job.  It sucks when your money doesn't replenish itself.  What do you guys think?

Well then.  I'm home finally and astonishingly bored.  I wanna hang out with people but I'm finding that noone is really available to do anything.  Everyone has to work.  So I guess we'll just have to do stuff when everyone is available.  Give me a call guys!  I'm bored.

Wow.  I think that I just found the most addicting sport in the world.  My hallmates and I played racquetball yesterday and today for about 4 hours a day.  It's kinda funny that we didn't discover this glorious sport until the end of the semester, but there is always next semester.  But anyway today me and Jonathan just played by ourselves for at least a couple of hours.  It's so much fun!  I hope that we can find a spot in Murfreesboro that has some good courts or something.  That would be cool.  Anyways, that is all.  I'm doing good in school.  So far the only grade that I've finalized is a B in a 2nd year English class called Rhetoric and Research.  I just wish that it was just as easy for me to write about a specific given topic than it is for me to write about my thoughts and random concerns.  Oh well.  I guess I'll just have to suck at research papers.  I believe that that was my last English class though so boo yah.  Alright guys.  Leave me some remarks!  

Well.  I was just thinking today how that God works.  I don't know about you guys, but sometimes I wonder why I did stupid things in the past (no I never did any terrible thing, and even if I did I don't think it's appropriate to post it on blogs and such).  Today I realized that there might be another reason besides just testing your faith or making you more patient.   It seems more recently that guys have come to me with certain issues and I have been able to help them because of my previous experience handling such things.   I'm not saying that people should experience a lot of sin in order to become super affective counselers, but I am saying that it's funny how God can take a mistake in your life and make it a tool to build a fellow Christian up.  Just a thought.  Am I making sense?  Do you guys get what I am talking about?

It seems like it's more fun to think on blogs and post questions.  Like.....
I think that I've had a big struggle for a long time in my life, and it only took one friend to say, "Hey, I've been noticing that............." and I seemed to just immediately try harder to not do that thing and it became less and less of a problem.  Funny how that works huh?  Sometimes a constructive criticism given in love is the best gift that a friend can give someone.  Food for thought.  Don't think that you are hurting someone by pointing out what they need to change. 

Well guys.  It has once again been a while.   I think that it is a funny concept in the movie What Women Want.  If you haven't seen it, it is where a guy inherits the ability to hear women's thoughts as if they were talking to him.  A lot of the time I think that this tool would come in handy an awful lot.  Most of the time I just wish I knew what someone was thinking or whether or not what I say is being taken the way I want it to.  I guess that will never happen though.  Just a thought.  What do you guys think about that?  I mean reading people's thoughts would be beneficial, but I guess not when everyone could.  Then there would be no reason for talking.  

Well.  It's been a while since I've updated last so I thought that I would let you guys know what's going on.  I have been doing well recently.  I am getting good grades in college mostly B's but I am grabbing some A's too (don't know if that sounded right).  I think that I am gonna audition for the music program at Lee for this next semester, and hopefully, I'll get in.  I don't know what they are expecting but I think that I'll do fine (I've heard some of the other people that they've accepted......I'll do fine).  But now I need to select my work load for next semester and I'll take a while to think this one through.  Please pray for me cuz that's a pretty big deal.  That's about it!  Leave me some remarks!

Woo hoo!  I'll be heading home tomorrow right after my 9:00 to 10:00 am class.  I would skip it but we have a mid term in it.  How gay is that?  Well I can't wait to see everyone.  I'm excited to see how Relentless Youth Ministries is turning out and how the praise team is doing.  It should be fun to see you guys again.  Peace.

Man. It's been so long since I've lead praise and worship. I feel like I'm having withdrawals. I dunno. I'm coming home the nineteenth and Jonathan and I were hoping that we could lead for the youth group but that's a long shot. We'd have to clear it with Gus and Kenny, and it would just feel like we're stepping in on Paul. We'll just have to see. I miss all of you guys. Peace out.

Guys you are looking at a master procrastinator. I have a rough draft due tomorrow for a conference with a teacher to see what i could improve on. I have the notes, bibliography, and outline, but i don't have the actual paper started. That's what my day will most likely consist of today. If you wanted to know, the paper's about "How Music Affects One's Mood." I'd better get started on that sucker.

Question for ya though: If you were to write a paper about three cool things Russell has done, what would your three main points be (you don't have to actually write the paper.......unless you want to)? Leave me some comments. I love you guys! Be good.

Well guys. I just had an amazing weekend. I went and surprised Steph there at Samford and we had an amazing time. We didn't necessarily have a huge plan for the weekend. We just hung out (sometimes that makes for the best date; just sitting and talking and looking each other in the eye). We did go to this awesome restaurant called Davenport's and ate some good pizza. The next day my car battery was dead (I had to sleep there cuz guys aren't allowed in the girl's dorms-go figure- so I had my fan on in there for too long). Steph pulled through though and pulled her car up next to mine, we used my jumper cables, and started the car. I felt so manly just cuz I've never used jumper cables before. Anyway, I didn't wanna leave but now that I'm back, Adam and Thorne (guys from my dorm)and I are gonna watch Night At the Roxbury. It rocks. Well, let me know what you think or just leave me a comment. Peace.

Does noone have any encouragement anymore? Geez. This site is made for information and feedback. I don't know. Well. Life's good, girlfriend's good, and God is AMAZING!

Yeah so. I tried an open relationship with this amazing girl. We dated for five months, but then decided that we might be better off if we allowed each other space to allow dating other people. I never knew it would be so hard to not be attracted to this girl long after we had "called it quits for a while." Well, I went back and saw her this weekend, and I couldn't help it. I had to ask her if she'd quit this madness and go back out with me. I'm happy to say that she agreed with me and accepted happily. I know that I couldn't be happier at this moment. Good weekend.

I am totally stealing this from someone, but I thought it was really cool. If you could descibe me in one word, what would it be? How cool is that. Leave me remarks.

Hey. I never actually knew what this meant, but I guess that homecoming actually is for all those people who gratuated who want to come back and see everyone. Well, that's what I'm gonna do. I hope to see a lot of people so if you guys wanna do something, just holla atcha boy (make sure it's cheap though. You know, with college and all). Hopefully Oakland can at least beat the homecoming team. Too bad they couldn't beat garbage. Leave some comments!

I can't believe I actually did this. I caved in. It was origanally just to look for someone elses phusebox, but this site is actually quite better. This is good though. I might actually suggest it to other people. For some reason though, I feel like I'm shafting xanga. I guess I am though so....no worries then.