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Name: Lance
Country: United States
State: Oregon
Metro: Portland
Birthday: 10/8/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Praying, and letting God love on me. And of course being a vessel of music through which God pours out His love on others. It's all Him!
Expertise: Piano. It's very freeing to just sit and play what comes from my heart. Jesus put it in me!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
12/1/2003
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| Mmmm...fall. Crisp air, vibrant colors, warm drinks inside. It's been a great autumn so far.
It's been a while...lots has happened since I posted back in July. I'll update more later.
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| My oh my...four point five months since I wrote in this thing! Lots has changed, and lots is changing. Some good, some kind of challenging. But I suppose that's good too. I long for simplicity more and more every day, but know that it's distant. My summer term at PSU starts today. New schedule. Still working full time. I'll manage. I'm realizing more and more that my graduate work is so much a means to an end. Don't get me wrong, I love being a student....especially when all of my classes are about what I love. But I just want to skip to the end, and have my PhD and professorship teaching growing minds the mysteries and wonders of music history...and is applicability to today. Well, I should be working. I'm alive and well, though. Ready to be married....only two more months! Loves.... | | |
| Wow....it's been quite a while! I need to go back to blogging more often. It's strangely cathartic... Life is INSANE right now. I got a promotion at Warner, so I'm making more, and one of the benefits is a "loan" from Warner to help pay for grad school...and if I can commit to five years with Warner after the receipt of my degree, they will forgive the loan! I was ready to leave...but with the pay raise, and the willingness to assist me with my education (and flexibility with my hours, etc), I decided to go for it. It's kind of ironic, given the current state of the economy, with all of the job loss, etc. All I can say is that God's provision is inconceivable. Work does, however, continue to stress me out. I know I've committed several years to Warner, but I don't know how long I'll stay in the financial aid office.......it's wearing on me... God has just been doing some wonderful things lately. Lindsay and I are getting the ball rolling on wedding planning, and God reminds me daily how blessed I am to have her, and to be a part of her family. It does good things for my heart. :) School is also going well...I'm almost finished with the Winter term. It's been a little stressful trying to do school and full-time work simultaneously, but it is what it is. Well, I've gotta get back to work...I have some fires that have to be put out. | | |
| Wow! Two months! It's been a while....is anyone still on here? It seems like a desert website now.
Well, Christmas was wonderful. First time with the new family. We're enjoying the Oregon coast right now in Seaside, just relaxing and enjoying each others' company. It's fun to be with the WHOLE family, even though it's a little chaotic at times. We go back to Portland on Tuesday. It makes me miss those Christmases my family used to have in Indiana where everyone got together and we had Christmas at Lisa's house, and there were babies, and family and good times. Well, perhaps my family can gather like that in the future...
We "enjoyed" about four feet of snow/ice/sleet the past two weeks in Portland. It was a beautiful wintery wonderland at first, but then it just kept piling and piling on and got a little overbearing. Things are supposed to melt the first part of this next week. That would be nice...
Linds moves back home to Hillsboro to live with her parents until the wedding in September. It's going to be a challenge...it will be the first (and hopefully only) "long distance" part of our relationship. In all of my past experience (HA!) with relationships, I have been able to note that things are better if they are one or the other---long distance, or no distance. It's when the two mix that things get rough and bumpy. But I know that we'll do fine. We start pre-marital counseling in January, and we'll be meeting with our pastor once a month through September. It's a unique way to do pre-marital counseling, but I'm excited that we'll have a little more time between sessions to really chew on things, and talk with each other and our friends and families about the topics discussed.
Well, that's about it. I go back to work on January 2nd, and start the next term of my MAT on January 5th. Here's to the rest of this wonderful beach vacation! | | |
| UGH!!!! I can't seem to get out of this STUPID funk! All I want to do run away for some reason.....quit my job, do school only, be with Lindsay and sleep. "Routine" is killing me right now! Maybe it's that I have found something that is actually me (school, and my MAT studies), and so I want to get rid of everything in my life that doesn't have to do with who I am as a person. I just realized how selfish that sounds. I know that I need to pay the bills; practicality has been pounded into my head since childhood.......I just...I don't know. That's the problem, I just don't know. | | |
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